When grendel speaks of unferth and says, "i could crush him like a fly" (89), what literary device is being used?

Read this passage from "the pedestrian" by ray bradbury: which sentence best describes the overall impact of the setting?

Which quotation from the passage best supports the themethat humans have a natural desire to learn about theworld? "they were men. i remember the dead man's face.""at least, we make a beginning."and the magic tools are broken—but we can look atthem and wonder."but they were men who built the city, not gods ordemons.

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