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Read the passage from The Iliad. Thus he spoke, and they all held their peace, till Menelaus of the loud battle-cry addressed them. "And now," he said, "hear me too, for it is I who am the most aggrieved. I deem that the parting of Achaeans and Trojans is at hand, as well it may be, seeing how much have suffered for my quarrel with Alexandrus and the wrong he did me. Let him who shall die, die, and let the others fight no more." Menelaus most strongly affects the epic plot through his .

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speech

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because it says "Thus he spoke". this is a verb, and the act or noun is speech

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