Scholar Helene Foley has described the way that these passages get reversed to show the interdependence of men and women, and a reversed one of them describes the joy of a few survivors of a shipwreck who finally reach land.
Scholar Helene Foley has described the way that these passages get reversed to show the interdependence of men and women, and a reversed one of them describes the joy of a few survivors of a shipwreck who finally reach land. In the first use of this device, the swarming of bees immediately precedes the appearance of personified Rumor. In another example of this device, a lion and a wild boar fight over water before the son of Menoetius is killed by the oldest son of (*) Hecuba and Priam. The deaths of Sarpedon and Patroclus are both accompanied by passages that employ this device, which in its "epic" or "Homeric" form is often an extended comparison between the ordinary and extraordinary. For 10 points, name this kind of metaphor that uses "like" or "as."
Scholar Helene Foley has described the way that these passages get reversed to show the interdependence of men and women, and a reversed one of them describes the joy of a few survivors of a shipwreck who finally reach land.
Homeric similes [or epic similes]