Question

Which literary device is used in this excerpt from Book 24 of Homer's Odyssey to describe Ulysses’s happiness?

He sate, and eyed the sun, and wish'd the night;
Slow seem'd the sun to move, the hours to roll,
His native home deep-imaged in his soul.
As the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil,
Whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil,
Sees with delight the sun's declining ray,
When home with feeble knees he bends his way
To late repast (the day's hard labour done);
So to Ulysses welcome set the sun;

simile
epic simile
metaphor
epithet

Answer 1

epic simile because the rest do not fit in as well as epic simile

Answer 2

Epic Simile

Step-by-step explanation:

This is an example of an Epic Simile. Also known as Homeric Simile, it is an extended version of a simile, but often taking several lines. It is more typically found in poetry as a way to emphasize heroism, turning it into an unmissable feat.

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two entities, usually with the use of words like "as" or "like". For example: "Your cousin is agile like a cat."