Read the excerpt from part 4 of the odyssey.
we saw the funnel of the maelstrom, heard
the rock bellowing all around, and dark
sand raged on the bottom far below.
my men all blanched against the gloom, our eyes
were fixed upon that yawning mouth in fear
of being devoured.
which statement best explains the metaphor in this excerpt?
the whirlpool is compared to a mouth, showing its decreasing strength
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the whirlpool is compared to a mouth, showing its menacing threat.
the whirlpool is compared to a sandy beach, showing its proximity.
the whirlpool is compared to a sandy beach, showing its familiarity.

In julius caesar did portia use effective strategies when she tried to persuade brutus to tell her the truth?

Write an adaptation for an audience expecting a modern english answer ! shakespeare’s language: but soft, what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east and juliet is the sun! arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she. be not her maid, since she is envious; her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it. cast it off. it is my lady, o, it is my love! o that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that? her eye discourses, i will answer it. i am too bold: 'tis not to me she speaks. two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyesto twinkle in their spheres till they return. what if her eyes were there, they in her head? the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp. her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so brightthat birds would sing and think it were not night. see how she leans her cheek upon her hand o that i were a glove upon that hand, that i might touch that cheek!

The overwhelming majority of the peoples and nations of the world today want to live in peace