Alliteration: Quote: "I saw the fuddle and flush come over him"(Homer 379). Defense: "fuddle" and "flush" repeat the initial consonant sound "f". Allusion: Quote: "we served Agamemnon, son of Atreus"(Homer 377). Defense: It is describing what war it was in. Dialogue: Quote: "you are a ninny"(Homer 377). Defense: it is calling someone a ninny in a conversation. Dramatic Irony: Quote: "cyclops, you ask my honorable name?...My name is nohbody"(Homer 380) Defense: he is saying his mane is nobody, so that the cyclops won't know who it is. Foreshadowing: Quote: "but if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew." (Homer 394) Defense: it is warning him that if he eats the cows, the ship and crew will perish. Hyperbole: Quote: "no man turned away when cups of this came 'round." (Homer 375) Defense: it is very unlikely that no one ever turned down a drink of this. This is an overstatement. Imagery: Quote: "they would put one cupful-ruby-colored, honey-smooth, into twenty more of water"(Homer 375) Defense: It is describing a drink Metaphor: Quote: "I walked up and down, from bow to stern, trying to put heart into them"(Homer 395). Defense: we expect the cyclops to get help, but the others go away. Onomatopoeia: Quote: ""(Homer) Defense: 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: you don't ask for a gift, so he's blackmailing him. 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 thing. Smilie: Quote: "upon her serpent necks are borne six heads like nightmares of ferocity"(Homer 393) Defense: it uses the word like to describe the heads. Situational Irony: Quote: "Nohbdy's tricked me..."" we are no use in pain given by great Zeus."(Homer 381) Defense: it is like saying that nobody has hurt him, so the others go away. Symbol: Quote: "Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last upon a mass of dung before the gates"(Homer 401) Defense: a symbol of how they think of odysseus and how they respect his memory. Verbal Irony: Quote: "maybe he has one like it at home"(Homer 406) Defense: they are satin one thing, but they mean it in a different way.