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Read the excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey.

A prodigious man

slept in this cave alone, and took his flocks
to graze afield—remote from all companions,
knowing none but savage ways, a brute
so huge, [The cyclops] seemed no man at all of those
who eat good wheaten bread; but he seemed rather
a shaggy mountain reared in solitude.

What does the metaphor add to the passage? Choose two answers.

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Answer: B and E

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User Yuva Raj
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Answer:

- a comparison between the Cyclops and a large land form

- a comparison between the Cyclops and Odysseus

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