Question

What is the simile that the author uses to describe to the audience what happened to the cyclops eye? Thanks

Answer 1

In this passage, Homer describes the scene in which Odysseus blinds the Cyclops. This is an extremely violent and descriptive scene. It is also an example of an extended simile. A simile is a direct comparison of two things through the use of descriptive words such as "like." In this case, we see a Homeric simile (named after Homer). This is a detailed simile that is many lines in length.

The passage describes the way a hot stake went through the Cyclops eye, and the noise that this made. Homer compares the action and the noise to the way a blacksmith might submerge a hot axhead or adz into cold water, releasing steam.

Answer 2

Answer:

The simile that the author used to describe the cyclops eye in the text attached is the statement "one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam the way they make soft iron hale and hard"

Explanation:

The clause "...an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam the way they make soft iron hale and hard" is actually the simile in the text. Simile is a figure of speech used in various grammatical terms whereby a comparison is made by showing similarities between two different things by the use of words such as "like", "as", etc. Thus, the statement above though not with the "as" or like words but actually shows the similarities between an adze plunged and wrung in screeching steam, and a soft iron which has been heated to high degrees and then plunged in cold water thus screeching steam.