1. Alliteration Quote: "I saw the fuddle and flush come over him" (Homer 379). Explain: "Fuddle" and "Flush" repeat the initial consonant sound "f"
2. Allusion Quote: "We served under Algermenon, son of Altreus" (Homer 377) Explain: It explains the history of Altreus.
3. Dialogue Quote: "'You are a ninny'" (Homer 377) Explain: The words in a conversation that takes place between characters in a text; these are in quotation marks.
4. Dramatic irony Quote: "'Cyclops, you ask my honorable name?...My name is Nohbdy'" Explain: When the audience knows something that a character doesn't know.
5. Foreshadowing Quote: "But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew" (Homer 394) Explain: It gives us a hint about what's about to happen.
6. Hyperbole Quote: "No man turned away when the cups of this came round" (Homer 375) Explain: It is very unlikely that no one ever turned down a drink of this. This is an exaggeration.
7. Imagery Quote: "They would put one cupful-ruby-colored, honey-smooth, into twenty more of water" (Homer 375) Explain: It contains words that appeal to the 5 senses.
8. Metaphor Quote: "I walked up and down, from bow to star, trying to put heart into them" (Homer 395) Explain: Comparing two things not using "like" or "as."
9. Onomatopoeia Quote: "The pierced ball hissed broiling, and the roots popped." Explain: The words "popped" make a sound and "hissed" make a sound.
10. Paradox Quote: "Here we stand be holden for your help, or any gifts you give - as custom is to honor strangers...Zeus will average unoffending guest"(Homer 377) Explain: He rudely asks for gifts
11. Personification Quote: "When the young down with fingertips all rose touched the world, I roused the men." (Homer 385) Explain: Down does not have fingertips and cannot touch the world gives human qualities to a non human thing.
12. Simile Quote: Upon her serpent necks are borne and heads like nightmares of ferocity (Homer 393) Explain: They compared something using "like" or "as."
13. Situational Irony Quote: "Nobody's tricked me... We are no use in pain given by great Zeus" (Homer 381) Explain: Cyclops expects friends to help but the opposite happens and they leave him.
14. Symbol Quote: "Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last upon a mass of dung before the gates" (Homer 401) Explain: The dog has a deeper meaning; it symbolizes how Odysseus is treated.
15. Verbal Irony Quote: "Maybe he has one like it home (Homer 406) Explain: They were making fun of Odysseus.