Question

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 odyssey,
homer
based on the epic simile, how should the poems
listener picture the cyclops’s eye?
○ like a smithy’s shop full of interesting tools
○ like a soft, cold piece of iron
○ like a hissing piece of hot metal in cold water

Explanation:

The epic simile compares the Cyclops’s eye hissing around the spike to a white - hot axehead or adze being plunged into a cold tub (where it screeches steam). So the listener should picture the eye like a hissing piece of hot metal in cold water. The first option is about the smithy's shop, not the eye's appearance. The second option describes cold, soft iron, which doesn't match the hissing, hot - to - cold interaction of the eye.

Answer:

C. like a hissing piece of hot metal in cold water