Read the passage from The Odyssey - Penelope., №8918152, 26.03.2021 09:50

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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.

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Which word from the passage best explains what the web in the passage symbolizes?

ruses

time

happy

weaving

Explanation:

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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.

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"and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians"

Explanation:

Penelope, wife of Odysseus, is witty. For twenty years, Penelope had not met Odysseus. Even after ten years of Trojan Fall, when Odysseus did not make it to his kingdom in Ithaca, many rowdy crowd of suitors started pressurizing Penelope for re-marriage. But, Penelope was a faithful wife. She knew Odysseus would return one day. To pacify the crowd of rowdy suitors, she made a proposal to them. She agreed to remarry as soon as she finish weaving her loom. So, Penelope would weave everyday and unweave it every night.

In this manner, Penelope was able to deceive her suitors (Akhaians) for three years in a very cleverly manner.

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PLEASE HURRY TIMED 40 POINTS Read the passage from The Odyssey - Penelope. Ruses served 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. Which word from the passage best explains what the web in the passage symbolizes? A - ruses B - time C - happy D - weaving

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B - time

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Will give 38 ! 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,

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B. The county wives would hold me in dishonor

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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.

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: "-The country wives would hold me in dishonor"

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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.

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From the given passage above from The Odyssey - Penelope, the line from the passage that best shows that Penelope is clever is: and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians. What makes Penelope very clever is that, her suitors agreed with her condition which is she needs to weave the great loom. But never did they know that every night by torchlight, she is unweaving it and she'll weave it again the next day. And this went on for three years.

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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.

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Which word from the passage best explains what the web in the passage symbolizes?

ruses

time

happy

weaving

Explanation:

edge 2020

English

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.

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D. "and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians"

Penelope's trick to delay the suitors so that she could wait for Odysseus, her husband, to return was to set up a weave and tell them that she would not choose a husband until she was finished. Every day she wove and every night she undid the weaving so that it would never be finished.

Several quotes in this passage show that she is clever, but this last one shows it the most because it proves that her scheme actually worked. Just having the idea or doing the action of weaving is not enough to show that she is clever. The fact that she was able to deceive an entire group of men shows how clever she is.

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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.

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and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians

This sentence shows that Penelope is clever, because her ruse, her plan to delay the suitors, worked for three years. The idea to weave by day and unweave by night was a good one, but it only is clever if it actually works, which we know it does by this sentence.

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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.

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"and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians."

Explanation:

This is the phrase that best shows how clever Penelope is. In this passage, we learn of Penelope's scheme to trick the Akhaians. She asks them to wait until she finishes weaving a shroud. However, while she weaves during the day, she unweaves during the night. In this way, she never progresses and she is able to trick the Akhaians for longer.

Read the passage from The Odyssey - Penelope.
Ruses served 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.
Which word from the passage best explains what the web in the passage symbolizes?

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