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read the passage describing the greek and trojan armies:

sudden as hungry wolves the kids purloin
or lambs, which haply some unheeding swain
hath left to roam at large the mountains wild;
they, seeing, snatch them from beside the dams,
and rend incontinent the feeble prey,
so swift the danaï the host assail'd
of ilium; they, into tumultuous flight
together driven, all hope, all courage lost.

identify the extended simile in this passage. how does it add meaning to the text? support your response using evidence from the text.


what i think it is:

i'm pretty sure it's about goats on land. they roam freely with nothing stopping them and then they hear a cry from a goat by the dam. they see it being eaten by a wolf. after that they all strat getting eaten and then all hope is lost. what i'm having trouble with is who are the goats (greeks or trojans) and who are the wolfs and why?

When Patroclus came to the battle and the men of Troy beheld him, they thought that Achilles had forgotten his anger and come forth. Then the men of Troy turned to flee, and many chiefs fell by the spears of the Greeks.

"Sudden as hungry wolves the kids purloin

Or lambs, which haply some unheeding swain

Hath left to roam at large the mountains wild."

Homer compares the Greeks to hungry wolves who attacked the lambs which were left unsupervised. By lambs, the author means the Trojans, who bacame easy prey for Greeks after Patroclus in the armor of Achilles charged them.

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explanation:

the tone of the passage is sympathetic to the forbidden love of romeo and juliet. the nurse plays a significant role in the play. she is responsible for making their meeting again possible. additionally, there is a sense of warning in the choice of words of the nurse. she seems to be authoritative when she calls romeo "scurvy knave", and at the same time the fact that she addresses to him as "sir" reflects respect. the nurse is "vexed", this word describes her confused state of mind. on the one hand, she finds romeo a fine and eloquent man, but on the other, it is thought that man's nature forces men to try to trick women.