Read this excerpt from homer's odyssey and pay close attention to the list of names.

they reached the meeting grounds with throngs of people streaming in their trail as a press of young champions rose for competition. topsail and riptide rose, the helmsman roshard too and seaman and sternman, surf-at-the-beach and stroke-oar. breaker and bowsprit, racing-the-wind and swing-aboard and seagirt the son of greatfleet, shipwringhtson and the son of launcher, broadsea, rose up too. .

what is this an example of?
a. an invocation
b. a catalogue
c. an epic simile
d. an epithet

Ineed on this app i was at ambitious but then all of the sudden i got put back to about 30 points. is there something i can do about this, because i lost all of my progress in this app.

It is true that prior to 1914 the united states often had been disturbed by events in other continents. we had even engaged in two wars with european nations and in a number of undeclared wars in the west indies, in the mediterranean and in the pacific for the maintenance of american rights and for the principles of peaceful commerce. but in no case had a serious threat been raised against our national safety or our continued independence. what is the theme of this excerpt? a. the responsibility for americans to avoid involvement in war.b. america’s history of international involvement.c. a new kind of threat to american security.d. america’s history as a peaceful nation.

She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair, and bathed rose petal sweet, and drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, and white shoes on her feet. which literary technique does the stanza demonstrat