Which best evaluates the tone and formality of this new version of section one?

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. what functions as a symbol in this excerpt? treated as rubbish now, he lay at lastupon a mass of dung before the gates-manure of mules and cows, piled there untilfieldhands could spread it on the king's estate. abandoned there, and half destroyed with flies, old argus lay. a. a muleb. the kingc. odysseusd. argus