Read the following passage and answer the question.


“Athena said, ‘It’s wrong, Telemachus, wrong to rove so far, so long from home, leaving your own holdings unprotected...’”

This is an example of which epic convention?

lengthy speech

digression

epic simile

divine intervention

Respuesta :

This is considered an Epic Simile

Answer: D) Divine Intervention.

Explanation:  An epic is a long narrative poem, about a serious topic, and that develops around a heroic or almost divine character. The epic conventions are characteristics that epic poems usually have in common. In the given passage from "The Odyssey" we can see an example of the epic convention of divine intervention. Divine intervention is simply the participation of gods in the life of mortals, in this case, Athena (a goddess) is giving advice to Telemachus (mortal, son of Odysseus).