Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"i reached the crag of scylla and dire charybdis’ vortex
right when the dreadful whirlpool gulped the salt sea down."

what is the comparison that is being made in this passage?

scylla is being compared to a whirlpool.
odysseus is trying to avoid being drowned by charybdis.
charybdis is being described as a human who can "gulp".
charybdis is a six-headed monster.

C) Charybdis is being described as a human who can "gulp".

Explanation: In the given excerpt of "The Odyssey" by Homer, we can see a brief description of the time when Odysseus passed between Scylla and Charybdis, after the Island of Sirens. Scylla is a six headed monster who swallows one sailor for each head, and Charybdis is a whirlpool that could swallow the entire ship, in the excerpt we can see the comparison of Charybdis with a human who gulps (..."the dreadful whirlpool gulped the salt sea down").

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

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