Then,
his chores being all dispatched, he caught
another brace of men to make his breakfast,
and whisked away his great door slab
to let his sheep go through—but he, behind,
reset the stone as one would cap a quiver.
the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that
a) the cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus’s men.
b) odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave.
c)the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant cyclops.
d)the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings.

A Homeric simile, also called an Epic simile, is an extended simile that often runs to several lines. It is typically found in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject and it's also used to serve as decoration, even.

It has nothing to do with more men being eaten. It is not even mentioned here. Neither about the trap. It is about how what they can do to escape. The simile attenuates the rock, the fact that the Cyclopes leaves every morning and that he moves the rock that most likely, mere men can't.

C)the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant Cyclops.

D)the Cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings.

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hi! can you be a little more specific? ! is this multiple choice? "used here" used where? hope i can : )