Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. The epic simile in this excerpt shows
Neither reply nor pity came from him,
but in one stride he clutched at my companions
and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies
to beat their brains out, spattering the floor.
O how helpless Odysseus's men are in the clutches
of the Cyclops.
O how violently and uncivilized the Cyclops behaves
himself.
O that Cyclops is enormous in comparison to
Odysseus and his men.
o that there is no possible escape for Odysseus and
his men.