- Alliteration
a. Quote: "I saw the fuddle and flush come over him."
b. Defense: They used two words that started with "f". - Allusion
a. Quote: "'Helen of Argos, daughter of Zeus & Leda would she have joined the stranger, lain with him, if she had known her destiny?'"(Homer 414).
b. Defense: It made a reference to the Trojan War. - Dialogue
a. Quote: "All but stove us in!" (Homer 384)
b. Defense: The quote above is in quotation marks and is part of a conversation - Dramatic Irony
a. Quote: "Odysseus took his time, turning the bow, tapping it, every inch, for boring that termites might have made while the master of the weapon was abroad. The suitors were now watching him, and some jested among themselves." (Homer 406)
b. Defense: The suitors don't know the old man is Odysseus - Foreshadowing
a. Quote: "But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew." (Homer 394)
b. Defense: They are hinting something bad is going to happen - Hyperbole
a. Quote: "No man turned away when cups of this came round" (Homer 375)
b. Defense: He's being dramatic. - Imagery
a. Quote: "She had startling eyes, like fourteen-Karat gold." (Riordan 31)
b. Defense: I can see her eyes looking like gold, it appeals to my sense of sight - Metaphor
a. Quote: "I walked up & down, from bow to stern, trying to put heart into them" (Homer 395)
b. Defense: He's comparing courage and heart without using like or as. - Onomatopoeia
a. Quote: "The Cyclops bellowed and the rock roared round him." (Homer 380)
b. Defense: The word sounds like what it means. - Paradox
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b. Defense: - Personification
- Quote: "One is a sharp mountain piercing the sky." (Homer 392)
- Defense: The sky can not really pierce something, it is given a human action.
- Simile
- Quote: "Upon her serpent necks are born six heads like nightmares of ferocity" (Homer 393)
- Defense: It uses the word like.
- Situational Irony
a. Quote: "Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!" (Homer 381)
b. Defense: He thinks he's calling for help but instead he's sending everyone away. - Symbol
a. Quote: "Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last upon a mass of dung before the gates" (Homer 401)
b. Defense: They are dis-honoring his legacy which the dog is part of. - Verbal Irony
b. Defense: He doesn't mean it, only wants to trick the cyclops.