Which statement best explains the simile in this excerpt?

a.)the sea is compared to a boiling pot, emphasizing its churning.
b.)the sea is compared to a boiling pot, emphasizing its depth.
c.)the sea is compared to heaven, emphasizing its strength.
d.)the sea is compared to heaven, emphasizing its size.

read the excerpt from part 4 of the odyssey.

and on our starboard beam charybdis, dire
the gorge of the salt seated. by heaven! when she
vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron
seething over an intense fire, when the mixture
suddenly heaves and rises.

The answer would be option A "The sea is compared to a boiling pot, emphasizing its churning." The phrase "when she vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron seething over an intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises." They are comparing the sea to a cauldron and it is emphasizing it's churning because the vomit is causing the water to boil and rise.

Hope this helps.

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,