Alliteration- Quote- I saw the fuddle and flush come over him.(Homer 379) Defense- "fuddle and flush" repeat the initial consent sound "f".
Allusion- Quote- We served under Agamemnon, son of Atreus.(Homer 377) Defense- is is an Allusion because it is talking about how they are a community under the order of the son of Atreus.
Dialogue- Quote-"you are a ninny" Defense- They are a ninny. Dramatic Irony- Quote-"cyclops you ask my honorable name.)....my name is nobody" (Homer 380) Defense- Odysseus gave the cyclops a different name to trick him by telling him his name was nobody. When the reader knows something will the character does not.
Foreshadowing- Quote- "but if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew". (Homer 394) Defense- this gives us a hit on what is growing to happen.
Hyperbole- Quote- " No man turned away when cup of this came around". (Homer 375) Defense- It is very unlikely no one ever turned down a drink of this it would be over exaggeration.
Imagery- Quote- They would put one cupful- ruby-colored, honey-smooth, into twenty more of water". (Homer 375) Defense- is is imagery because the sentence is giving us a image that we can imagine.
Metaphor- Quote- I walked down from bow to stern, trying to put heart into them". (Homer 395) Defense- it is metaphor because it is comparing the boat the hart of the men without using like or as.
Onomatopoeia- Quote-"So with our brand we bored that great eye socket while blood ran out around the red-hot bar Eyelid and lash were scared; the pierced ball hissed broiling, and the roots pooped"(Homer 296) Defense-sounds- hissed and popped. The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
Paradox- Quote-"here we stand, beholden for your help, on any gifts-as custom is to honor strangers...Zeus will average the offending quest."(Homer 377) Defense- It is paradox because Odysseus is demanding something which is a gift and saying that Zeus will do bad on him if he doesn't.
Personification- Quote- "When the young dawn with fingertips of rose touched the world, roused the men."(Homer 385) Defense- Dawn does not have fingertips and can not touch the world gives human qualities to a nonhuman thing.
Simile- Quote- "upon her serpent necks are born six hands like nightmares of ferocity"(Homer 395) Defense- is is unseeing like to compare six heads and nightmares.
Situational Irony- Quote- "Nohbdy's tricked me..."we are no use in pain given by great Zeus"(Homer 381) Defense- He is going to get help but he sends them away instead.
Symbol- Quote- "Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last upon a mass of dirt before the gates"(Homer 401) Defense -They treat the dog like they treat the memory of Odysseus.
Verbal Irony- Quote-"maybe he has one like it at home"(Homer 406) Defense- Because the iorny is thatis his name.