Question

Read the excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey. A prodigious man slept in this cave alone, and took his flocks to graze afield—remote from all companions, knowing none but savage ways, a brute so huge, [The cyclops] seemed no man at all of those who eat good wheaten bread; but he seemed rather a shaggy mountain reared in solitude. What does the metaphor add to the passage? Check all that apply.

Answer 1

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(5) a comparison between the cyclops and odysseus

(2) a comparison between the cyclops and a large and form

Answer 2

A metaphor is a comparison between two things without using the words "like" or "as" (which would make it a simile). In this paragraph, the cyclops is compared to a large mountain. The effect of the metaphor is thus 1) to make a comparison and 2) to give the reader a visual image of the cyclops as a huge entity.