Odyssey Final Exam Review

the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character

• metaphor

• irony

• epithet

• epic hero

the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters, in a group of words

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

putting two contradictory words together

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

overwhelming pride, arrogance, or self-confidence

• Xenia

• hubris

• hyperbole

• epic

hints about things that will happen in the future

• epic

• simile

• epic hero

• foreshadowing

An elaborate, very detailed version of a simile that shows how two things are alike.

• epic simile

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

a figure of speech in which an animal, object, a natural force, or an idea is given personality or is described as if it were human

• metaphor

• personification

• Xenia

• alliteration

A comparison of two unlike things; in other words, finding a similarity between two things that usually have nothing in common at all

• simile

• epic simile

• oxymoron

• metaphor

words that imitate sounds

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• Xenia

a descriptive adjective or phrase used to characterize someone

• oxymoron

• personification

• epithet

• alliteration