Read the excerpt from the odyssey.
but cyclops went on filling up his belly
with manflesh and great gulps of whey,
then lay down like a mast among his sheep.
what two unlike elements are being compared in this simile?
the cyclops and the mast of a ship
the cyclops’ belly and his sheep
manflesh and gulps of whey
a mast and a flock of sheep

the Cyclops and the mast of a ship

A paraphrase of the passage would be: The Cyclops kept eating Odysseus' men and drinking. Eventually he laid down like a mast with his sheep all around him. A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using like or as. The simile in this passage is "The Cyclops...lay down like a mast." The Cyclops is being compared to a mast showing that he laid down by falling over straight and not curling up.

i think the answer is c

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)