What characteristics of odysseus, the story's epic hero, are most shown in this excerpt?

i shall not see on earth a place more dear,
though i have been detained long by calypso, loveliest among goddesses, who me in her smooth caves, to be her heart, s delight, as circe of aeaea, the enchartress desired me and detained me in her hall. but in my heart i never gave consent where shall a man find sweetness to surpass his own home and his parents? in far lands he shall not, though he find a house of gold

a. knowledge and strenght
b. confidence and courage
c. leadership and perseverance
d. character and loyalty

In at least one hundred words, discuss how the man with the umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of an extended metaphor and what central theme he conveys.

Olivia is making scarves each scarf will have 5 rectangles and 2-5 of the rectangles with be purple how many purple rectangles does she need for three scarves

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)