Read this excerpt from eleanor roosevelt’s "what i hope to leave behind."

as i see it we can have no new deal until great groups of people, particularly the women, are willing to have a revolution in thought; are willing to look ahead . . are willing to give up constant competition.

by repeating the phrase “are willing” three times, roosevelt creates a tone of

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings