in travail, sobbing, gaining on the current, we rowed into the strait – Scylla to port and on our starboard beam Charybdis, dire gorge of the salt sea tide. By heaven! when she vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron seething over intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises. —The Odyssey, Homer What does the simile add to this passage? Check all that apply.
