The Straw , The Coal , And The Bean Using a Short Answer Response what is the author's purpose for using figurative language in the
passage?
The coal slipped after her, hissed when she got into the water, and breathed her last. The bean, who
had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not but laugh at the event, was unable to stop, and
laughed so heartily that she burst."

Then, from heaven, the voice of the god called to gilgamesh: "hurry, attack, attack humbaba while the time is right, before he enters the depths of the forest, before he can hide there and wrap himself in his seven auras with their paralyzing glare. he is wearing just one now. attack him! now! " –gilgamesh: a new english translation, stephen mitchell identify a feature of epic poetry in the passage. in three to four sentences, explain its impact on the epic's plot.