Question

read the passage from the odyssey - excerpt: by night our ship ran onward toward the oceans bourne, the realm and region of the men of winter, hidden in mist and cloud. never the flaming eye of helios lights on those men at morning, when he climbs the sky of stars, nor in descending earthward out of heaven; ruinous night being rove over those wretches. for odysseus and his men, the loss of helios, the sun, symbolizes a loss of

• death.
• fear
• hope
• power

Explanation:

In "The Odyssey", Helios (the sun god) is associated with hope and order. The loss of Helios' light (the sun) in the context of Odysseus and his men would symbolize a loss of hope. Death is too final and not the primary symbolic association here, fear is more about emotion than what the sun symbolizes, and power is not the main symbolic link of the sun in this context.

Answer:

C. hope