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.

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Salvador

23 April, 12:04

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.

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Harley Nichols · Answer 1

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.