What does the following example illustrate?

Joy . . . warm as the joy that children feel
when they see their father's life dawn again,
one who's lain on a sickbed racked with torment,
wasting away, slowly, under some angry power's onslaught—
then what joy when the gods deliver him from his pains! (5, 436-440)

THE ODYSSEY by Homer, translated by Robert owletles. Copyright © 1996 by Robert owletles. (Viking Penguin, 1996) Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of Robert owletles.

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What does the following example illustrate?

    Joy . . . warm as the joy that children feel
    when they see their father's life dawn again,
    one who's lain on a sickbed racked with torment,
    wasting away, slowly, under some angry power's onslaught—
    then what joy when the gods deliver him from his pains! (5, 436-440)

    THE ODYSSEY by Homer, translated by Robert owletles. Copyright © 1996 by Robert owletles. (Viking Penguin, 1996) Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of Robert owletles.


Invocation
Epic Catalogue
Epic Metaphor
Argument