1. Alliteration Quote: "I saw the fuddle and flush come over him" (Homer 392). Defense: "Fuddle" and "Flush" repeat the initial consonant sound "f".
2. Allusion Quote: "We served under Agamemnon son of Atreus. (Homer 397). Defense: It makes a reference to the people who served in the Trojan War.
3. Dialogue Quote: "You are ninny" (Homer 377). Defense: A person is saying that you are ninny.
4. Dramatic Irony Quote: "Cyclops you ask my honorable name?... My name is Nohbdy" (Homer 380). Defense: The audience knows that Odysseus is his real name, it isn't Nohbdy. The cyclops thinks it is Nohbdy.
5. Foreshadowing Quote: "But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew" (Homer 394). Defense: It says that he sees destruction if you raid the beeves. It is telling about the future.
6. Hyperbole Quote: "No man turned away when cups of this came around" (Homer 375). Defense: It is very unlikely that no one ever turned down a drink of this. This is an overstatement.
7. Imagery Quote: "They would put one cupful-ruby-colored, honey-smooth, into twenty more of water. (Homer 375). Defense: It has the word sommth which has to deal with the five senses.
8. Metaphor Quote: "I walked up and down, from bow to stern, trying to put heart into them" (Homer 395). Defense: It compares two things not using like or as.
9. Onomatopoeia Quote: "Nohbdy's tricked me" (Homer 380). Defense: Nohbdy sounds like Nobody
10. Paradox Quote: "Here we stand beholden for your help, or any gifts you give as custom is to honor strangers... Zeus will avenge the unoffending guest' (Homer 377). Defense: A gift is a privilege.
11. Personification Quote: "When the young dawn with fingertips of rose touched the world, I roused the men" (Homer 385) Defense: Dawn does not have fingertips and cannot touch the world. It gives human qualities to a nonhuman things.
12. Simile Quote: "Upon her serpent necks are borne six heads like nightmares of ferocity. (Homer 393) Defense: It compares heads to nightmares while using like or as.
13. Situational Irony Quote: Nohbdy's tricked me...''We are no use in pain given by great Zeus" (Homer 381) Defense: It said, that no one has tricked him before the cyclops. It is the opposite of what we expect to happen.
14. Symbol Quote: "Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last upon a mass of dung before the gates." (Homer 401) Defense: It says that he is treated by rubbish when he lays on dung. It means two things, so it is a symbol.
15. Verbal Irony Quote: "Maybe he has one like it at home." (Homer 406) Defense: He doesn't actually have another one at home.