Read the following passage about Odysseus from Part 2 of the Odyssey:
“But the man skilled in all ways of contending,
satisfied by the great bow’s look and heft,
like a musician, like a harper, when
with quiet hand upon his instrument
he draws between his thumb and forefinger
a sweet new string upon a peg: so effortlessly
Odysseus in one motion strung the bow.”
What is the effect of the epic simile in this passage?