Read the excerpt from Part 4 of The Odyssey. There, as the whirlpool drank the tide, a billow tossed me, and I sprang for the gr
eat fig tree, catching on like a bat under a bough. Nowhere had I to stand, no way of climbing, the root and bole being far below, and far above my head the branches and their leaves, massed, overshadowing Charybdis pool. In this excerpt, Odysseus is compared to a whirlpool. bat. root. pool.
"bat In this excerpt, Odysseus is compared to a bat. The excerpt features a simile that states ""I sprang for the great fig tree, catching on like a bat under a bough."" In the first person, Odysseus is comparing himself to a bat that is trapped. He has no way to escape. His circumstances are foreboding, and his prospects are dim."
