Read the excerpt from the odyssey. in a smithy one sees 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 use of the epic simile in this excerpt the reader understand
-that the cyclops only has one eye.
-how brutal odysseus and his men are.
-the size of the wooden spear.
-how hot the spear actually is.