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 two unlike elements being compared in the simile from the excerpt of 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"-are the Cyclops and the mast of a ship. The comparison is made by likening the Cyclops lying down to a mast standing upright on a ship, emphasizing the Cyclops's large, upright form among the sheep

. Thus, the correct answer is:
the Cyclops and the mast of a ship.