Read the excerpt from The Odyssey . Then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. What two things are being compared in this epic simile?
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the door slab to the Cyclops’ sheepB
the Cyclops’ chores to the menC
a brace of men to breakfastThe comparison is between the stone door slab and a quiver’s cap. The phrase “as one would cap a quiver” shows that the Cyclops resets the stone in the same way someone would put a cap on a quiver. So the correct choice is “the stone to a quiver.”
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