Iseized the bell-rope; dropped it, ashamed; seized it again; dropped it once more; clutched it trembling once again, and pulled it so feebly that i could hardly hear the stroke myself.

knowing the definition of the bolded word you

a.) that the speaker has a reputation for being lazy
b.) that the speaker is very determined to solve the problem
c.) that the speaker is very nervous
d.) that the speaker is very physically strong

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings