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Multiple Choice
Which figure of speech is exemplified by lines 149–151 of the excerpt from The Odyssey, Part III?
Then slid his right hand down the cord and plucked it, / so the taut gut vibrating hummed and sang a swallow’s note.
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simile
simile
metaphor
metaphor
personification
personification
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Which of the following is the antecedent for the pronoun them in the sentence below?
Penelope and her maids walked towards the suitors and gave them the bow.
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Penelope
Penelope
her maids
her maids
the suitors
the suitors
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What does the word sense most likely mean in line 69 of the excerpt from The Odyssey, Part III?
You bleary vagabond, no rag of sense is left you!
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intuition
intuition
rationality
rationality
sensibility
sensibility