Why is the simile from lines 213—216 of The Odyssey, Part 1 effective?

...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. (from The Odyssey, Part I, lines 213—216)

1.It emphasizes that a stone prevents any escape from Polyphemus's cave.

2.It reveals how enormous and strong Polyphemus is.

3.It tells that Polyphemus is not only a shepherd, but also an archer.

4.It shows that Odysseus's men quivered with fear.

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sadly though, i cannot you if you don't post the paragraph. i'm confused on what to write!

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the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following for purely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundred years after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabic imprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual history acknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation of both the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. the vast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has been integrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-called baghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages are preceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in its turn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating from indian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culture hold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisingly few details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actual position within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss links between the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveying these links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabian nights in modern iran

there monkeys paw is old and they wish for being skinny, getting rich, and bring their son back.

may i ask on your question is there any word specific that is bolded or are they wanting us to figure it out?