Literary Devices Log
Alliteration
Quote: "I saw the fuddle and flush come over him" (Homer 379).
Defense: It keeps repeating the letter F sound.
Allusion
Quote: "Helen of Argos, daughter of Zeus and Leda would she have joined the stranger lain with him if she had know her destiny" (Homer 414).
Defense: It reference to other works in literature, art, history or the politics of her destiny.
Dialoge
Quote: "You are a ninny" (Homer 377).
Defense: It's a conversation between two people.
Dramatic Irony
Quote: "Odysseus took his time, turning the bow tapping it, every inch for borings that termites might have made while the weapon was abroad, the suitors were how watering him and some busted among" (Homer 406).
Defense: The suitors didn't know it was Odysseus only the readers knew.
Foreshadowing
Quote: "But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew" (Homer 394).
Defense: It's giving a hint about something that hasn't happened yet.
Hyperbole
Quote: "No man turned away when cups of this came round" (Homer 375).
Defense: This quote is used for humor or emphasis.
Imagery
Quote: "When he spoke, his voice was soft and low, an aging baritone tempered by a southern accent" (Sparks 24).
Defense: This quote is imagery because I can hear how soft and low southern accent voice.
Metaphor
Quote: "I walked up and down from bow to stern, trying to put heart, into them (Homer 395).
Defense: It is comparing courage and heart with out using like or as.
Onomatopoeia
Quote: "Just so that eyeball hissed around the spike" (Homer 380).
Defense: The word "hissed" sounds like what it means.
Paradox
Quote: "Here we stand, beholden for your help, or any gifts you give-as custom is to honor strangers. We would entreat you, great sip, have a care Zeus will avenge the unoffending guest" (Homer 377).
Defense: It's a statement that seems to be contradictory of the story or work that makes sense.
Personification
Quote: "One is a sharp mountain piercing the sky" (Homer 392).
Defense: It's personification because a sharp mountain can't be piercing the sky.
Simile
Quote: "Upon her necks are borne six heads like nightmares of ferocity" (Homer 393).
Defense: It's comparing six heads with nightmares of ferocity using like or as.
Situational Irony
Quote: "Nobody, Nobody's tricked me, Nobody's ruined me!" (Homer 373)
Defense: We expect that the cyclops call for help but he says nobody so they don't think he needs help.
Symbol
Quote: "Treated as rubbish now, he lay at best upon a mass of during before the gates" (Homer 401).
Defense: It is a definition as well as a deeper meaning in the text.
Verbal Irony
Quote: "Cyclopes, you ask my horrible name my name is Nobody"(Homer 380).
Defense: It doesn't really mean it's name is Nobody it only wants to trick the Cyclops.