The reader should picture the beam of wood Odysseus found in the cave like the mast of an enormously large ship. The comparison in the excerpt explicitly relates the size and dimensions of the club to that of a mast used in a deep-sea-going vessel, emphasizing its substantial length and girth.
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
Here are the means I thought would serve my turn:
a club, or staff, lay there along the fold—
an olive tree, felled green and left to season
for Cyclops' hand. And it was like a mast
a lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam—
a deep-sea-going craft—might carry:
so long, so big around, it seemed.
Based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood Odysseus found in the cave?
like a deep-sea-going ship or vessel
like an olive tree, just felled and still green
like the Cyclops, large and wide
like the mast of an enormously large ship
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