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Which excerpts contain examples of epic similes? check all that apply.
and they would put one cupful—ruby-colored,
honey-smooth—in twenty more of water,
but still the sweet scent hovered like a fume
over the winebowl.
or are you wandering rogues, who cast your lives like dice, and ravage other folk by sea? '
then he dismembered them and made his meal,
gaping and crunching like a mountain lion—
everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones.
when the young dawn with finger tips of rose
lit up the world, the cyclops built a fire
and milked his handsome ewes, all in due order, putting the sucklings to the mothers.

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