My men came pressing round me, pleading: 'Why not

take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back,

throw open all the pens, and make a run for it?

We'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. We say

put out again on good salt water!'

Ah,

how sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished

to see the caveman, what he had to offer –

no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends.

-The Odyssey,
Homer

What inferences can be made about Odysseus based on his choice to stay and see the Cyclops? Check all that apply.

Odysseus does not care about his crew.
Odysseus is curious about what the Cyclops is like.
Odysseus wants to see if the Cyclops will give him anything.
Odysseus is scared of the Cyclops.
Odysseus needs to show who is in charge by not following what his men say.

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can

line 5 is one of them idk the other one

the class of pronouns which is usually singular:

the class of pronouns used as an adjective to point out which person or thing is being discussed:

the class of pronouns that does not need a specific antecedent:

the class of pronouns which turns the action back on the subject:

the class of pronouns used to ask questions:

the class of pronouns used for emphasis:

the class of pronouns made up of two-word pronouns:

the class of pronouns, other than personal pronouns, that has a nominative and an objective case: