Read the poem below and answer the question that follows.

“happiness epidemic”
by david hernandez

without any warning, the disease
sweeps across the country
like a traveling circus.

people who were once blue,
who slouched from carrying
a bag of misery over one shoulder

are now clinically cheerful.
symptoms include kind gestures,
a bouncy stride, a smile

bigger than a slice of cantaloupe.
you pray that you will be infected,
hope a happy germ invades your body

and multiplies, spreading merriment
to all your major organs
like door-to-door christmas carolers

until the virus finally reaches your heart:
that red house at the end of the block
where your deepest wishes reside,

where a dog howls behind a gate
every time that sorrow
pulls his hearse up the driveway.

source: hernandez, david. “happiness epidemic.” casa poema. casa poem, n. d. web. 6 june 2011.

which poetic technique is illustrated throughout the entire poem “happiness epidemic“?

metonymy
onomatopoeia
conceit
allusion

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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onto a large boat, and mark the water level that the boat sinks to. then, take the elephant out and put a bunch of marked weights onto the boat until it reaches the same water level. add up the masses of the weights to get the weight of the elephant.