Literary Devices Log 1. Alliteration ~Quote: "I saw the fuddle and flush come over him"(Homer 379). ~Explanation: They use two words that started with "f". ~Quote: "Broke a hilltop in his hands and heaved" (Homer 383). ~Explanation: They use four words that started with "H".
2. Allusion ~Quote: "'Helen of Argos, daughter of Zeus and Leda would she have joined the stranger, lain with him, if she had known her destiny?'"(Homer 414). ~Explanation: An allusion makes a reference about something and in the story it's referencing to the Trojan War.
3. Dialogue ~Quote: "Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!" ~Explanation: The quote above is part of a conversation and is in quotation marks. ~Quote: "'You are a ninny'" (Homer). ~Explanation: It takes place between two characters.
4. Dramatic Irony ~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). ~Explanation: The suitors don't know that the bigger is Odysseus.
5. Foreshadowing ~Quote: "'But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew'" (Homer 394). ~Explanation: They are hinting that something that hasn't happened yet in text.
6. Hyperbole ~Quote: "No man turned away when cups of this came round" (Homer 375). ~Explanation: He is being dramatic.
7. Imagery ~Quote: "He was tall and lean, with a shot of straight dark hair spilling across his forehead and eyes the color of rich chocolate." (McDaniel 5). ~Explanation: This quote uses imagery because I can see what he looks like; it appeals to my senses of sight. ~Quote: "They would put one cupful-ruby-colored, honey smooth-into 20 more of water" (Homer 375). ~Explanation: It appeals to the senses of sight and touch.
8. Metaphor ~Quote: "I walked up and down, from bow to stern, trying to put heart into them" (Homer 395). ~Explanation: He compares courage and heart without using like or as.
9. Onomatopoeia ~Quote: "The cyclops bellowed and the rack roared round him, and we fell back in fear" (Homer 380). ~Explanation: This is an onomatopoeia because when it says the rock roared it sounds like what it means.
10. Paradox ~Quote: "'Here we stand, behold en for your help, or any gifts you give, as custom is to honor strangers. We would entreat you, great Sir, have a care for the gods' courtesy: Zeus will avenge the unoffending guest" (Homer 377). ~Explanation: Gifts are given of your own free will, Oddysseus is black-mailing them for one. You can't do that.
11. Personification ~Quote: "One is a sharp mountain piercing the sky" ~Explanation: A mountain can't pierce through the sky, it is making a non animation thing and making it into a human quality. ~Quote: "My exhaustion and sickness begin to alter this arrival" (Salak 427). ~Explanation: Exhaustion and sickness can not alter anything.
12. Simile ~Quote: "Upon her serpent necks are borne six heads like nightmares of ferocity" (Homer 393). ~Explanation: The sentence uses the word "like". ~Quote: "When I got inside, the blood from my feet mixes with the gray river water like a final offering to the Niger" (Salak 426). ~Explanation: "The blood from my feet" is being compared to the "final offering" using "like".
13. Situational Irony ~Quote: "Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!" ~Explanation: We expect that the cyclops calls for help but he says Nohbdy so they don't think he needs help.
14. Symbol ~Quote: "Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last upon a mass of dung before the gastes" (Homer 401). ~Explanation: It's not just a dog, it symbolizes the way they treat Odysseuses legacy while he's gone. 15. Verbal Irony ~Quote: "'Cyclops, you ask my honorable name? Remember the gift you promised me, and I shall tell you. My name is Nohbdy.'" (Homer 380). ~Explanation: He doesn't mean it, he only wants to trick the cyclops.