Question

as in a smithy
one see 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 cyclopss eye?
○ like a smithys 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 plunged in cold tub (which makes soft iron hale and hard and produces screeching steam). So the listener should picture the Cyclops's eye like a hissing piece of hot metal in cold water. The first option is about the shop, not the eye's action. The second option is soft and cold, opposite to the hot metal in the simile.

Answer:

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