The Odyssey Figurative Language: Part I

"They came with dawn over that terrain like the leaves and blades of spring."

• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile
• personification

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Driving veils of squall moved down like night on land and sea."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"A third Dawn came with ringlets shining."

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Or are you wandering rogues, who cast your lives like dice, and favage other folks by sea?"

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"A wind from seaward served him, drove us there."

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"He clutched at my companions and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies to beat their brains out, spattering the floor."

• simile
• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Then they dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion-everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones."

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose lit up the world, the Cyclops built a fire and milked his handsome ewes."

• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile
• personification

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"But he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver."

• metaphor
• alliteration
• simile
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"And it was like a mast lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam---a deep-sea going craft---might carry: so long, so big around, it seemed."

• simile
• personification
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4