In this excerpt, odysseus is compared to a

a.)whirlpool.
b.)bat.
c.)root.
d.)pool.

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 great 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.