Techniques in Homer's Odysseus

Techniques in Homer's Odysseus

The Odyssey is a classic piece of Greek literature written by Homer. Throughout the Odyssey, Homer makes use of many literary techniques in order to give meaning to the poem beyond its significance as a work of historical fiction and help readers understand the story. He demonstrates the monsters fearsome, the goddesses stunning and the dangers frightening.

Almost every literary and narrative device imaginable can be found in the Odyssey: the flashback, the story of Odysseus's adventures to the king and queen of Phaeacia. One of the devices used most effectively by Homer's epic simile. A simile is a figure of speech in which two dissimilar things or concepts are presented as similar, for poetic, often through the use of like or like. For example, one could say that the hair of a girl is like the sun or her breath is rank as an old athletic sock. A comparison can extend the comparison epic proportions expansive.

In the Odyssey, Homer uses a different simile. First of all, then, this poem has been relatively small, and in most cases, they have not expanded the vast history. On the contrary, in the Odyssey, compared to increase the reader's experience. Schein compared with others, he cited the creation of more testing of Homer, her husband came home to, to the shores of shipwrecked sailors who have seen the joy that the appropriate Penelope. Penelope as the ship turned over. Realized his return is like catching sight of land. Statement of future events to predict mortality patterns suitors or descriptive adjectives, it is used to describe the glowing eyes, like Athena, or the splendid good looks and goddess of the dawn seemed to be everywhere every day words; unreliable narrator Many false stories to tell, like Odysseus, Eumaeus claim to be a rich irony of Crete with his son relates the story of drama, advised the king to a beggar must first rule of his house and again the metaphor of epic structure; many Odysseus clinging to the skin, such as extended descriptions compare the sea of rubble rock torn from the rock from the thickness of ripping pieces of squid, from their fingers out of the nest a matter of fact, every trade is improving the skills of the author in the Odyssey (Clinton, 713).

A distinctive feature of Homeric technique, it appears that there was the old epics, is the extensive analogies. These metaphors are short extensions of metaphors: for example, the simple metaphor "attacked like a lion" can be extended to the image of a wounded and angry lion attacking hunters in the picture of a lion devouring a sheep or a shepherd feared the image of animal trying to protect newborns from hunters. The world of metaphors is the world of everyday experience, which is familiar to the listener or the reader, and aims to help the imagination of the reader to understand something by comparing it with a picture from direct ...