Read the excerpt from part 2 of the odyssey. 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. which statement best explains the simile in this excerpt? a-the cyclops’ effort to catch the men is compared to a simple task, showing his strength. b-the cyclops’ effort to catch the men is compared to a simple task, showing his bravery. c-the cyclops’ effort to move the stone is compared to a simple task, showing his strength. d-the cyclops’ effort to move the stone is compared to a simple task, showing his bravery.

C-The Cyclops’ effort to move the stone is compared to a simple task, showing his strength.

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things directly by using connecting words (such as like, as, so, etc.). In this sentence, the sentence "as one would cap a quiver" is comparing how easy it would be for a person to cap a quiver with how easy it was for the Cyclops to move the stone. It is a way to express his enormous strength without mentioning it explicitly.

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)

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