Purpose Your purpose as a writer is to present and support a thesis about what you believe Virgil is implying about Aeneas’s character and/or of the poem’s theme by way of establishing a deliberate parallel which then makes the reader notice the telling differences between the passage from The Aeneid and the passage from The Odyssey that you chose. In order to accomplish this purpose, you will need to do more than summarize or paraphrase the two passages you chose. You will need to compare with one another specific details of the language that each poet uses in each passage.Such detail of language includethe diction (or word choice),the syntax (or sentence structure),the figurative language (metaphor, simile, epithet, etc.), andthe sound patterns created by the sounds of the words themselves (such as meter and rhythm, alliteration and assonance, etc.). Although demonstrating the similarities between the two passages might require only summary and paraphrase, often (as we dis
