Defense: This quote is in quotation marks and it is a conversation between two characters.
Quote: "You are a ninny." (Homer 377)
Defense: It's apart of a conversation between two characters.
4. Dramatic Irony
Quote: "Odysseus took his time, 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)
Defense: We know the begger is Odysseus but the suitors don't.
5. Foreshadowing
Quote: "But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew." (Homer 394)
Defense: They are hinting that something that hasn't happened yet in the text.
6. Hyperbole
Quote: "No man turned away when cups of this came round." (Homer 375)
Defense: It's unlikely no one turned it away.
7. Imagery
Quote: "Of the tiny pieces of glass breaking off the unicorn, and her turning it into something different, something new." (Gibaldi 184)
Defense: This quote uses imagery because I can hear and feel the glass breaking.
Quote: "They would put one cupful-ruby-colored, honey smooth-into twenty more of water." (Homer 375)
Defense: You can see the "ruby-colored" water and feel the "honey smooth".
8. Metaphor
Quote: "I walked up and down, from bow to stern, trying to put heart into them." (Homer 395)
Defense: He compares courage and heart without using like or as.
9. Onomatopoeia
Quote: "Eyelid and lash were seared; the pierced ball hissed broiling, and the roots popped." (Homer 380)
Defense: This is an onomatopoeia because "popped" sounds exactly like it's spelled.
10. 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 Sir, have a care for the gods' courtesy; Zeus will avenge the unoffending guest." (Homer 377)
Defense: Zeus isn't real but it makes sense in the story.
11. Personification
Quote: "One is a sharp mountain piercing the sky." (Homer 392)
Defense: A mountain can't actually pierce through the sky.
Quote: "My exhaustion and sickness begin to alter this arrive." (Salak 427)
Defense: Exhaustion and sickness can't change her arrival.
12. Simile
Quote: "Upon her serpent necks are borne six heads like nightmares of ferocity." (Homer 393)
Defense: It uses the word "like".
Quote: "When I get inside, the blood from my feet mixes with the gray river water like a final offering to the Niger," (Salak 426)
Defense: It is comparing the blood from her feet to the final offering using like.