Ineed checking over my answers!

what is the effect of the epic similes in lines 118-131 of the excerpt from the odyssey, part 2?

sometimes in farmyards when the cows return well-fed from the pasture to the barn, one sees the pens give away before the calves tumult, breaking through to cluster their mothers, bumping together bawling.

from the odyssey, part 2 [lines 122-126]

a. to criticize the lack of loyalty of odysseus's men.
b. to reveal odysseus's hurry to go back and free his men.
c. to show how thoroughly odysseus's men depended on him - i picked this one