Question

read the excerpt from the odyssey. as in a smithy 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 - just so that eyeball hissed around the spike. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt helps the reader understand that the cyclops only has one eye; how brutal odysseus and his men are; the size of the wooden spear; how hot the spear actually is

Explanation:

The epic simile compares the hissing of the Cyclops' eyeball around the spike to the hissing sound when a white - hot axehead or adze is plunged in a cold tub. This comparison helps the reader understand the high temperature of the spear, as the sound is similar to that made when something very hot comes in contact with something cold.

Answer:

how hot the spear actually is