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

a) that the cyclops only has one eye.
b) how brutal odysseus and his men are.
c) the size of the wooden spear.
d) how hot the spear actually is.

There are many epic similes used in Odysseus. Epic simile or Homeric simile means elaborate comparison of the events which is uncovered later. In these lines Homer describes making of spear - how it is made and how it is hot that when spear is made its warmth could affect the eyes.

1.c

2.a

3.d

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.