Read the passage from the odyssey - penelope. ruses serve my turn to draw the time out—first a close-grained web i had the happy thought to set up weaving on my big loom in the hall. i said, that day: 'young men—my suitors, now my lord is dead let me finish my weaving before i marry, or else my thread will have been spun in vain. it is a shroud i weave for lord laertes when cold death comes to lay him on his bier. the country wives would hold me in dishonor if he, with all his fortune, lay unshrouded.' i reached their hearts that way, and they agreed. so every day i wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight i unwove it; and so for three years i deceived the akhaians. which line from the passage best shows that penelope is clever? i had the happy thought to set up weaving the country wives would hold me in dishonor so every day i wove on the great loom and so for three years i deceived the akhaians

The country wives would hold me in dishonor.

Explanation:

In "The Odyssey", Penelope is the wife of Odysseus and the mother of Telemachus. This book depicts her as the epitome of a faithful wife, who devises plans to be faithful t her husband even during his long absence.

Odysseus had gone on a voyage that kept him away from his home for more than two decades. During his absence, men from his court, had tried to marry Penelope, saying that her husband had died and it's needed for the kingdom to have a new king. But she devised a plan to distract and delay the suitors' attempts, using the shroud she's weaving for her father-in-law as an excuse. She has been weaving a burial shroud for Odyssey's father Leartes, and saying that if she doesn't finish it and marry someone else, she will be frowned upon by the womenfolk. This weaving is an important part of Greek tradition. It's like her duty and responsibility as a daughter-in-law. And so, even the suitors did not object to her suggestion.

But Penelope managed to fool the men, weaving during the day and un-weaving it at night. She did this for three years until one of her unfaithful maids revealed the secret to the suitors. She had been crafty to delay the suitors' advances by three years, by herself, a woman.

this passage has a lot of figurative language like examples are

the day we found the sharks' teeth was foggy and cool.

moisture hung in the air so thick you could almost see it sparkling in the dim sunlight.

figurative language can not be taken seriously it is just sayings.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)