The Odyssey: Central Ideas and Character Motivation, Part 2
Question 6 • Online ELA 9 - A
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.
Answer
A
like a deep-sea-going ship or vessel
B
like an olive tree, just felled and still green
C
like the Cyclops, large and wide
D
like the mast of an enormously large ship
Explanation
The comparison describes the club as “like a mast” that a large, deep-sea-going ship might carry. The ship is mentioned to show how enormous the mast—and therefore the club—was. Choice D, “like the mast of an enormously large ship,” captures the comparison; choice A names the ship itself, not what the club is compared to.
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