He seized the other side of the wheel and to spin it around until it was hard down, and then we held it so. the boat resisted, and refused to answer for a while, and next she came surging to starboard, mounted the reef, and sent a long, angry ridge of water foaming away from her bows.

which figurative language technique is demonstrated in the last sentence of the passage?
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) hyperbole
d) personification