Heroic Similes in "The Odyssey" Practice

Master heroic similes from The Odyssey!

"A gull patrolling/ between the wave crests of the desolate sea/ will dip to catch a fish, and douse his wings;/ no higher above the whitecaps Hermes flew/ until the distant island lay ahead."In this heroic simile, Hermes is being compared to _. the sea a gull a wave a fish "[Odysseus] pushed aside the bushes, breaking off/ with his great hand as single branch of olive,/ whose leaves might shield him in his nakedness;/ so came out rustling, like a mountain lion."In this heroic simile, Odysseus is being compared to _. an olive branch a leaf a lion an orchard "We rowed into the strait -- Skylla to port/ and on our starboard beam Kharybdis, dire/ gorge of the salt sea tide. By heaven! when she/ vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron/ seething over intense fire, when the mixture/ suddenly heaves and rises."In this heroic simile, a boiling cauldron is being compared to _ The seamonster Kharybdis vomitting a giant taking a breath a rowing boat an intense fire "I drew it form the coals and my four fellows/ gave me a hand, lugging it near the Kyklops/ as more than natural force nerved them; straight/ forward they sprinted, lifted it, and rammed it/ deep in his crater eye, and I leaned on it/ turning it as a shipwright turns a drill/ in planking."In this heroic simile, the way Odysseus blinds the Kyklops is being compared to the action of _. sprinting drilling lifting lighting a fire "Athena lent a hand, [dressing Odysseus], making him seem/ taller, and massive too, with crisping hair/ in curls like petals of wild hyacinth,/ but all red-golden. Think of gold infused/ on silver by a craftsman, whose fine art/ Hephaistos taught him."In this heroic simile, the way Athena dresses Odysseus is compared to _. a gardner a hair stylist a painter a goldsmith "Intolerable -- that soft men, as those are,/ should think to lie in that great captain's bed./ Fawns in a lion's lair! As if a doe/ put down her litter of sucklings there, while she/ quested a glen or cropped some grassy hollow."In this heroic simile, the suitors invading Odyseeus' house is being compared to _. fawns in a lion's den crops in a field a lion eating a doe abandoning her children "And Odysseus/ let the bright molten tears run down his cheeks,/ weeping the way a wife mourns for her lord/ on the lost field where he has gone down fighting/ the day of wrath that came upon his children."In this heroic simile, Odysseus' tears are compared to a _ tears. child's volcano's wife's lord's "Princess and maids delighted in that feast;/ then, putting off their veils,/ they ran and passed a ball to a rhythmic beat,/ Nausikaa flashing first with her white arms./ So Artemis goes flying after her arrows flown/ down some tremendous valley-side."In this heroic simile Nausikaa playing ball is used to compare Artemis _. feasting hunting playing an instrument dancing