Question

read the excerpt from the odyssey. here are the means i thought would serve my turn: a club, or staff, lay there along the fold— an olive tree, felled green and left to season for cyclops hand. and it was like a mast a lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam— a deep - sea - going craft— might carry: so long, so big around, it seemed. based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood odysseus found in the cave? like a deep - sea - going ship or vessel like an olive tree, just felled and still green like the cyclops, large and wide like the mast of an enormously large ship

Explanation:

The text uses an epic simile comparing the beam of wood to the mast of a large ship. The key is to focus on the simile structure in the excerpt.

Answer:

like the mast of an enormously large ship