Literary Devices Identification 1. Alliteration a. Quote~ "broke a hilltop in his hands and heaved."(Homer 383) b. Defense~ It's a repetition of the letter "h". 2. Allusion a. Quote~ "Helen of Argos, daughter of Zeus and Leda would she have joined the stranger, lain with Jim, if she had known her destiny?"(Homer 414). b. Defense~ It makes a reference to the trojan war. 3. Dialogue a. Quote~ "'you are a ninny'"(Homer 377) b. Defense~ It is from too people talking to each other. 4. Dramatic Irony a. Quote~ "Odysseus took his life, turning the bow, tapping it, every inch, for borings 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 that the beggar is Odysseus but the readers do. 5. Foreshadowing a. Quote~ "But if you raid the beeves. I see destruction for ship and crew"(Homer 395). b. Defense~ We know it hasn't happened but it has told us so. 6. Hyperbole a. Quote~ "No man turned away when cups of this came round"(Homer 375). b. Defense~ I'm pretty sure someone decided to not drink any. 7. Imagery a. Quote~ "they would put on cupful-ruby-colored honey-smoothed- into twenty more of water"(Homer 375). b. Defense~ It uses the senses smell and look. 8. Metaphor a. Quote~ "I walked up and down, from bow to stern, trying to put heart into them"(Homer 380). b. Defense~ It is comparing courage and heart. 9. Onomatopoeia a. Quote~ "screeching steam the way they make soft iron hale and hard"(Homer 380). b. Defense~ The word "screeching" uses onomatopoeia because you could make sound because it sounds like what it means. 10. Paradox a. Quote~ "here we stand, beholden for your help, or any gifts you give-as custom is to honor strangers. We would entreat too, great Sir, have a care for the gods' courtesy; Zeus will avenge the unoffending guest,"(Homer 377). b. Defense~ You can't get a gift if you force it or demand. 11. Personification Quote~ "My exhaustion and sickness and sickness begin to alter this animal"(Salak 427). Defense~ The words "exhaustion" and "sickness" can't actually change everything. 12. Simile a. Quote~ "When I get inside, the blood from my feet mixes with the gray water like a final offering to the Niger"(Salak 426). b. Defense~ It compares the blood mixing with the final offering to the Niger. 13. Situational Irony a. Quote~ "Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me"(Homer 381). b. Defense~ The cyclops was tricked into thinking that a person named "Nohbdy" did it to him. 14. Symbol a. Quote~ "Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last upon a mass of during before the gates"(Homer 401). b. Defense~ The dog is there to symbolize how they treated Odysseus's legacy. 15. Verbal Irony~ a. Quote~ "Cyclops you ask my honorable name? Remember the gift you promised me, and shall I tell you. My name is Nohbdy" b. "Nohbdy means it doesn't only wants to trick the cyclops.