Answer:
Battered but unruffled
Explanation:
Simile is a figure of language that refers to comparisons. In the excerpt shown in the question above, we can see the presence of the simile in the following lines:
- in rags like a foul beggar, old and broken,
- he bore it, patient as a stone.
Comparisons show that there is a man who is badly mistreated and suffering like a beggar, but he bears this miserable situation unbeatably like a stone. From this we can conclude that the two similes of the passage present an image of the odyssey as battered, but unruffled .
