| When dawn spread her finger tips of rose.(Homer gives dawn fingers and the ability to use the fingers) | Personification |
| ……….. the sweet scent hovered like a fume over the winebowl(Homer is comparing the scent to a fume) | Simile |
| The Sea= time, journey, barrier= to his life | Metaphor |
| Two dozen four-wheeled wagons with heaving wagon teams, could not have stirred the tonnage of that rock from where he wedged it over the door sill! | Hyperbole |
| Only plain truth shall I tell you child……. (Odysseus downplays his journey) | Litotes |
| Vengeance- Odysseus killing the suitors | Theme |
| Son of Laertes= Odysseus | Epithets |
| The number from Dulichium alone is fifty-two hand picked men, with armorers, a half-dozen; twenty-four came from Same,……………………(Telemachus is listing all of the suitors) | Catalouges |
| Argus(O’s time gone, loyalty and love are shown by Argus) | Symbol |
| But anguish lies ahead; the god who thunders on the land prepares it………..(Tiresias is telling Odysseus about the future) | Foreshadowing |
| … | Flashback |
| By heaven! when she vomited, all of the sea was like a cauldron seething over intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises. | Imagery |
| … | Allusion |
| The Odyssey starts out with most of Odysseus’ journey already completed. Homer uses flashbacks to tell the beginning of the story while Odysseus finishes his journey home. | In medias res |
Odyssey Review Examples
April 21, 2020