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Literary Terms in The Odyssey
Simile
Definition:
Homeric Simile
Comparison
In a smithy
One sees a white-hot axhead or an adze
Plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam –
the way they make soft iron hale and hard –
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
(lines 385-389)
Unfamiliar:
None would attach – oh, it was strange, I tell you –
but switching their long tails they faced our men
like hounds, who look up when their master comes
with tidbits for them – as he will- from table.
Humbly those wolves and lions with mighty paws
fawned on our men…
(lines 543-547)
…on our starboard beam Charybdis, dire
gore of the salt sea tide. By heavens! When she
vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron
seething over intense fire, when the mixture
suddenly heaves and rises.
(lines 804-808)
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Metaphor
Definition:
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Metaphor
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Comparison
1
But he seemed rather a shaggy mountain
2
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That made the rage of the monster boil
over
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His mind churning with thoughts of
bloody work
2
My Metaphor:
Imagery
Definition:
Type of Imagery
Visual
Auditory
Tactile
Thermal
Olfactory
Gustatory
Kinesthetic
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Types of Imagery
Allusion
Definition:
Rap Lyrics
I’m full strength like a Cyclops‘s eye drops,
I got support like high-tops.
- Ugly Duckling, Left Behind.
“The side lines is lined with casualties
Who sip the life casually, then gradually become
worse
Don’t bite the apple, Eve” -Jay-Z
“My rep grows like the nose of Pinocchio,
Just because I’ve mastered the art of braggadocio.”
-Akrobatik
“Tonedeff’s slays giants,
as if my legal name’s David.” -Tonedeff
My Allusion:
Allusion
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Epithet
Definition:
Epithet
Rosy-fingered Dawn
Reveals
The clear-eyed goddess (Athena)
Circe, the nymph with lovely braids
Son of Laertes (Odysseus)
Who marshals the thunderheads (Zeus)
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Personification
Definition:
Example of Personification
When Dawn spread out her fingertips of
rose
Sleep looses Odysseus’ limbs, slipping the
toils and anguish from his mind.
East and South Winds clashed, and the
raging West and North sprung from the
heavens.
Death sat there huge
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Hypothesis