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just as an angler poised on a jutting rock flings his treacherous bait in the offshore swell, whips his long rod-hook sheathed in an oxhorn lure – and whisks up little fish he flips on the beach-break, writhing, gasping out their so now they withered, gasping as scylla swung them up her

what is this passage describing?

this passage describes the way scylla devours the sailors.
this passage describes how odysseus prevents scylla from eating his crew.
this passage describes how odysseus gets away from polyphemus.
this passage describes how ithacan fisherman fish along the coast.

This passage describes the way Scylla devours the sailors.

The entire passage is a metaphor. Scylla is being compared to a fisherman. The fisherman is throwing out his bait and whipping up fish out of the water onto the beach where they struggle to breathe. Scylla is doing something similar with the way she plucks the sailors from the ships and devours them. Nowhere in the passage does it talk about Odysseus saving his crew or escaping Polyphemus. Even though it does describe fisherman, the purpose is as a comparison to Scylla's behavior.

one thousand and one nights, also known as arabian nights is a collection of stories whose basic structure is that of embedded narrative. this technique refers to a main story which works as the common frame - or framing narrative - for the other stories, and then this series of stories which are connected to the main one. this technique can also be referred to as a story within a story. the stories stem from the original tale, some begin and end on their own, some are connected to the previous or following one, by means of questions that are answered in the subsequent tale, or characters which reappear.

on apex:

removing american indians from the south is for their own good.