Figurative Language

"At the time of our story Achilles is a grown man, runs faster than a gazelle, and is as brave a fighter as an angry bear."

• personification
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

"The mild summer wind whispered around her."

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• hyperbole

"Achilles of the bright armor leads more than two thousand wolf-wild warriors, riding the wave path in fifty ships.

• alliteration
• personification
• metaphor
• simile

"You have the courage of a sparrow."

• simile
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• metaphor

"Lightning flashed, and thunder roared throughout the high land and over the black waves of the sea." 

• simile
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

"Eyes were sliced by backhand blows of bronze blades."

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

"Now they fell on each other like savage beasts."

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• simile

"The Greeks were ready, like hounds about to be unleashed."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

"They marched toward Troy, and Earth groaned."

• alliteration
• metaphor
• personification
• simile

"First the slashing hiss of volleys of arrows, followed by the clatter of hurled javelins as they were deflected off of shield and breastplate and thuds as they crashed into throats and breasts and skulls."

• personification
• simile
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia