-Alliteration Quote: "Broke a hilltop in his hands and heaved" (Homer, 353) Defense: They used 4 words that started with a H.
-Allusion Quote: " Helen of Argos, daughter of Zeus and Leda would she have joined the stranger if she had known her destiny" (Homer, 44) Defense: Penelope makes a reference to Helen of Troy, and the Trojan War.
-Dialogue Quote: "You are a ninny" (Homer, 377) Defense: It is having a conversation between two characters. It also has quotation marks.
-Dramatic Irony Quote: "Odysseus took his time, turning the bow...the suitors were now watching him, and some jested among themselves" (Homer, 406) Defense: Odysseus is now going to kill the suitors, they do not know it is Odysseus.
-Foreshadowing Quote: "But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew" (Homer, 394) Defense: You can tell what is going to happen in the future.
-Hyperbole Quote: "No man turned away when cups of this came round" (Homer, 375) Defense: It is unlikely no one turned away
-Imagery Quote: "They would put one cupful-ruby colored, honey smooth unto twenty more of water" (Homer, 375) Defense: They used all 5 senses, taste, feel, see, hear, and smell.
-Metaphor Quote: "I walked up and down, from bow to stern, trying to put heart into them" (Homer, 395) Defense: Compares courage and heart.
-Onomatopoeia Quote: "The pierced ball hissed broiling, and the roots popped" (Homer, 380) Defense: This is Onomatopoea because "the pierced ball hissed" sounds exactly like it means.
-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: Zeus is not real, but it makes sense in the story to have Zeus
-Personification Quote: "One sharp mountain piercing the sky" (Homer, 392) Defense: A mountain cannot actually pierce the sky. It is bringing up animation to the mountain.
-Simile Quote: "Upon her serpent necks are borne six heads like nightmares of ferocity" (Homer, 393) Defense: The quote is comparing a serpent neck and six heads.
-Situational Irony Quote: "Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!(Homer, 381) Defense: WE expect the cyclops to get help, but he says Nobody has tricked him.
-Symbol Quote: "Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last upon a mass of dung before the gasles" Defense: The dog was a symbol of Odysseus legacy while he was away.
- Verbal Irony Quote: "Cyclops, you ask my honorable name? My name is Nohbdy" (Homer, 380) Defense: He dosen't mean it, only wants to trick the Cyclops.