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Figurative Language in the Odyssey (onomatopoeia (Writing out sounds such…
Figurative Language in the Odyssey
Irony
Adds meaning to the text because it gives us something to relate to and be amused by
When Odysseus lies about his name and tells the cyclops his name is nobody, this causes the other cyclops to think nothing was wrong.
When odysseus returns from Ithaca he is dressed as a poor begger and tries to convince his wife it is him
Simile
Comparing to unlike objects using like or as
They came with dawn over that terrain like the leaves and blades of spring
Then he dismembered them making his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion-- everything. Innards, flesh, and marrow bones
Who cast your life away like dice?
But he, behind reset the stone as one would cap a quiver
And leaned on it turning it as a shipwright turns a drill in planking
Alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
rawhide rope
Slabs of stone
Black Blood
Our Fellows Faces
Idiom
Far out, as far out as voices could carry I yelled back a few that could be advisory
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
Oxymoron
When contradictory words appear next to each other.
When it says that the cyclopes live in his own mountain cave dealing out "rough justice" to wife and child.
When the story says made of slabs of stone earthfast between "tall trunks" of pine and rugged towering oak trees.
onomatopoeia
Writing out sounds such as "Boom" or "Crash"
Uses the word, "cracked" to express the action
The cyclops bellowed and the rock roared around him, and we fell back in fear
Metaphor
Comparing unlike objects without using like or as
"Odysseus is fated to escape his noose of pain".
Personification
Giving a non-human object human like characteristics
...and rested, Letting the steers men and the breeze take over.
When the young dawn with fingertips of rose lit up the world
We saw a cavern yawning above the water
Just so that eyeball hissed around the spike
Imagery
Describing a scene with great detail so that it creates a picture inside of your head
Here are the means I thought would serve my term: a club, or staff lay there along the fold --an olive tree, felled green and left to season for cyclops hand
Then he dismembered them making his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion-- everything. Innards, flesh, and marrow bones
Hyperbole
Gives exaggeration to specific areas that may be more important
For each poor ghost unfleshed by the cicones on that field
Caleb, Cameron, Jacob, Kevin