Humbly those wolves and lions with mighty paws fawned on our men… - lines 543-547: What’s familiar? What do you know? What’s unfamiliar? What do you NOT know? 3. *Examples of Homeric Similes None would attack-oh, it was strange, I tell you- but switching their long tails they faced our men like hounds, who look up when their master comes with tidbits for them-as he will-from table. A Homeric simile is an elaborate comparison, developed over several lines, between something strange or unfamiliar to the audience and something more familiar to them. Homer uses extended similes so masterfully that such comparisons now bear his name.The simile (a directly stated comparison using words like or as) helps the audience-then and now-picture how helpless and unwilling the men are. ![]()
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