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read the passage describing the greek and trojan armies:

sudden as hungry wolves the kids purloin
or lambs, which haply some unheeding swain
hath left to roam at large the mountains wild;
they, seeing, snatch them from beside the dams,
and rend incontinent the feeble prey,
so swift the danaï the host assail'd
of ilium; they, into tumultuous flight
together driven, all hope, all courage lost.

identify the extended simile in this passage. how does it add meaning to the text? support your response using evidence from the text.


what i think it is:

i'm pretty sure it's about goats on land. they roam freely with nothing stopping them and then they hear a cry from a goat by the dam. they see it being eaten by a wolf. after that they all strat getting eaten and then all hope is lost. what i'm having trouble with is who are the goats (greeks or trojans) and who are the wolfs and why?

When Patroclus came to the battle and the men of Troy beheld him, they thought that Achilles had forgotten his anger and come forth. Then the men of Troy turned to flee, and many chiefs fell by the spears of the Greeks.

"Sudden as hungry wolves the kids purloin

Or lambs, which haply some unheeding swain

Hath left to roam at large the mountains wild."

Homer compares the Greeks to hungry wolves who attacked the lambs which were left unsupervised. By lambs, the author means the Trojans, who bacame easy prey for Greeks after Patroclus in the armor of Achilles charged them.

subject: why anyone can be a genius.

occasion: moving forward in life.

audience: average person

purpose: to push you further in life

speaker: many famous geniuses.

here is the poem:

here is thy, and here is thee, genius is for what he can be.

poem is a matter of rhyme, but like ben frank said, life is a matter of time.

we have great inventors such as thomas edison, who said, "genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration." no, no perspiration as what comes from your skeleton.

we have great minds, from places of all kinds, such as yu kaw la chi tie, (now im switching languages because yu kaw was japanese.)

てちハラスイヒイス, てちラスイヒイス

てちのちみスイヒイス.

you are a genius, well not yet, but you are capable, and that is a bet.