Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.

but Cyclops went on filling up his belly
with manflesh and great gulps of whey,
then lay down like a mast among his sheep.

What two unlike elements are being compared in this simile?

the Cyclops and the mast of a ship
the Cyclops’ belly and his sheep
manflesh and gulps of whey
a mast and a flock of sheep

A paraphrase of the passage would be: The Cyclops kept eating Odysseus' men and drinking. Eventually he laid down like a mast with his sheep all around him. A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using like or as. The simile in this passage is "The Cyclops...lay down like a mast." The Cyclops is being compared to a mast showing that he laid down by falling over straight and not curling up.

jayilych4real jayilych4real · Answer 2 · 2021-09-30T12:56:58+02:00

The two unlike elements that are being compared in this simile are:

the Cyclops and the mast of a ship

A simile is simply making comparisons between two dissimilar things using "like" or "as"

From the given excerpt from The Odyssey, the narrator talks about the Cyclops and then compares it to a mast of a ship by describing how he lay down

The Cyclops and the mast of a ship are dissimilar

Therefore, the correct answer is option A