Question

Identify the extended simile in this passage. How does it add meaning to the text?

"Sudden as hungry wolves the kids purloin
Or lambs, which haply some unheeding swain
Hath left to roam at large the mountains wild;
They, seeing, snatch them from beside the dams,
And rend incontinent the feeble prey,
So swift the Danaï the host assail'd
Of Ilium; they, into tumultuous flight
Together driven, all hope, all courage lost."

Answer 1

"Sudden as hungry wolves that kids purloin

Or lambs, which haply some unheeding swain

Hath left to roam at large the mountains wild;"

This adds meaning to the text because it explains how the greeks are hungry wolves when Achillies enters the battle and how the Trojans are like kids or lambs because they stole Hellen from Menelaus.

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Answer 2

"Sudden as hungry wolves that kids purloin
Or lambs, which haply some unheeding swain
Hath left to roam at large the mountains wild;"