Read the passage from the odyssey - penelope. ruses served my turn to draw the time out—first a close-grained web i had the happy thought to set up weaving on my big loom in the hall. which word from the passage best explains what the web in the passage symbolizes? -ruses -time -happy -weaving

The word that best explains what the passage symbolizes is "ruses"

Explanation:

A ruse is "a trick intended to deceive someone (cambridge dictionary). Penelope is using ruses to buy some time and avoid getting married.

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Explanation:

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

i think the literacy device is "it's frozen head"