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?

A simile compares two unlike things, usually using “like” or “as.” The excerpt says the Cyclops “lay down like a mast,” comparing the Cyclops to a ship’s mast. The correct choice is “the Cyclops and the mast of a ship.”

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