The Odyssey - Literary Devices

The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?

"Grey-eyed goddess"

• Allusion

• Epic Simile

• Epithet

The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?

"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."

• Allusion

• Epic Simile

• Epithet

The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?

"Great glory of the Achaians"

• Allusion

• Epic Simile

• Epithet

The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?

“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."

• Allusion

• Epic Simile

• Epithet

The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?

"Or is he dead already, lost in the House of Death?"

• Allusion

• Epic Simile

• Epithet

The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?

"Her mind in torment, wheeling like some lion at bay, dreading the gangs of hunters closing their cunning ring around him for the finish."

• Allusion

• Epic Simile

• Epithet

The following line from The Odyssey, is an example of which literary device?

"Odysseus' true son"

• Allusion

• Epic Simile

• Epithet