Which lines in this excerpt from Book 13 of Homer's Odyssey use a simile?

Thus while he spoke, the blue-eyed maid began

With pleasing smiles to view the godlike man;

Then changed her form: and now, divinely bright,

Jove's heavenly daughter stood confess'd to sight;

Like a fair virgin in her beauty's bloom,

Skill'd in the illustrious labours of the loom.

"O still the same Ulysses! (she rejoin'd,)

In useful craft successfully refined!

Artful in speech, in action, and in mind!

Sufficed it not, that, thy long labours pass'd,

Secure thou seest thy native shore at last?

But this to me? who, like thyself, excel

In arts of counsel and dissembling well;

To me? whose wit exceeds the powers divine,

No less than mortals are surpass'd by thine.

The correct answer should be
Jove's heavenly daughter stood confess'd to sight;
Like a fair virgin in her beauty's bloom,
Skill'd in the illustrious labours of the loom

Using like to compare something is a simile, which is why this should be one.

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sortingsteering sortingsteering · Answer 2 · 2019-02-14T10:41:22-05:00

Answer: 1. Like a fair virgin in her beauty's bloom and 2. But this to me? who, like thyself, excel In arts of counsel and dissembling well.

Explanation: A simile is a figure of speech that consists in the comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, it uses the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison. In the given excerpt from "The Odyssey" by Homer, there are two examples of simile, the first one is in the phrase "Jove's heavenly daughter stood confess'd to sight; Like a fair virgin in her beauty's bloom, Skill'd in the illustrious labours of the loom" it compares Jove's daughter with a fair virgin. And the second one is "But this to me? who, like thyself, excel In arts of counsel and dissembling well" it compares the abilities of the speaker to the one of another person.