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").

answer:

a. "there, said he, there is something for you."

explanation:

"said he" should not have been part of what is in the dialogue.

anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.