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. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that the cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus’s men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant cyclops. the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings.

The enormous stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant Cyclops.

Explanation:

The epic simile that is used in this excerpt is the one that compares the enormous stone to a cap, and the way the Cyclops moves it to the way one would cap a quiver. This implies that the Cyclops finds moving the stone to be a very easy and mundane task, and that the stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant Cyclops.

tree and the cat in the tree

connections  to the  book night by elie wiesel.   elie wiesel  is a holocaust survivor. as a young, jewish boy he was taken from his home with his family by the nazis. he was taken because he is jewish.