Read the following excerpt and answer the question.

as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens--that's the iron's strength— so the eye of the cyclops sizzled round that stake! (odyssey, 9: 438-41)

which of the following literary devices is most prominent in the excerpt above?
-epic simile
-hyperbole
-personification

When a monster in a story does not have the ability to communicate, what is the most likely result?

What does manns conclusion in "coming of age in the dawnland" indicate about how the settlements and people of sixteenth-century new england reacted to the increasing presence of europeans?

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