The song of the Sirens may be seen as part of a pattern in The Odyssey that includes  Calypso and Circe. These feminine temptresses—each in their own way—try with  pleasurable temptations to waylay Odysseus and his men from making it back to Ithaca.  Such a loose pattern, such repetition-with-variation, may be called a. an epic simile b. situational irony c. a motif d. an allegory e. an ethos

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The song of the Sirens may be seen as part of a pattern in The Odyssey that includes 
Calypso and Circe. These feminine temptresses—each in their own way—try with 
pleasurable temptations to waylay Odysseus and his men from making it back to Ithaca. 
Such a loose pattern, such repetition-with-variation, may be called
a. an epic simile
b. situational irony
c. a motif
d. an allegory
e. an ethos

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