The Odyssey - Literary Devices

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Literary device in "Grey-eyed goddess" from The Odyssey?

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Epithet

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Literary device in this line from The Odyssey: "Well, would to god I’d stayed right here in my own house with a third of all that wealth and they were still alive, all who died on the wide plain of Troy those years ago, far from the stallion-land of Argos."

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Allusion

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Literary device in "Great glory of the Achaians" from The Odyssey?

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Epithet

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Literary device in this line from The Odyssey: “I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright’s drill that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl and the drill keeps twisting, never stopping –So we seized our stake with it fiery tip and bored it round and round in the giant’s eye.”

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Epic Simile

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Literary device in "Or is he dead already, lost in the House of Death?" from The Odyssey?

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Allusion

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Line from The Odyssey: "Her mind in torment, wheeling like a lion at bay, dreading the hunters closing in."

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Epic Simile

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Literary device in "Odysseus' true son":

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Epithet