“TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.”

1. “TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.”

2. Invocation

3. “Men hold me formidable for guile in peace and war: this fame has gone abroad to the sky’s rim.”

4. Hubris

5. Hear the loud alarum bells-Brazen bells!What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

6. alliteration

7. “She’ll be not hit with Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit.”

8. Allusion

9. "They call for you: The general who became a slave; the slave who became a gladiator; the gladiator who defied an Emperor. Striking story."

10. anadiplosis

11. “The June moon loomed over the horizon.”

12. assonance

13. O books who alone are liberal and free, who give to all who ask of you and enfranchise all who serve you faithfully!

14. apostrophe

15. “Those who don’t know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we’re dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake”

16. Anaphora

17. “…and then as if he just heard the news himself, [Papa] crumples like a coat and cries…”

18. simile

19. “A man surf-casting on a point of rock / for bass or mackerel, whipping his long rod / to drop the sinker and the bait far out, / will hook a fish and rip it from the surface / to dangle wriggling through the air; so these / were borne aloft in spasms toward the cliff,”

20. Epic/Homeric Simile

21. “My papa’s hair is like a broom, all up in the air”

22. Simile

23. “We didn’t always live on Mango Street. Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keeler it was Paulina and before that I can’t remember”

24. Anaphora

25. recurring element that has symbolic significance in the story

26. Motif

27. “loving hate”

28. oxymoron

29. “Keep, keep, keep, trees say when I sleep”

30. Assonance

31. “When she lived at home, the things she looked at scolded her and made her feel sad and depressed”

32. Personification

33. “…the south wind, he who flies with dripping wings, his terrible aspect shrouded in pitch-black darkness,”

34. Personification

35. “She smiles at the sight of suffering,”

36. Alliteration

37. “…you ask for punishment as your reward”

38. Paradox

39. “…the Cyclops built a fire and milked his handsome ewes, all in due order, putting the sucklings to their mothers. Then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great doorslab to let his sheep go through…”

40. Juxtaposition

41. “An’ we could have a few pigs. I could build a smoke house…an’ when we kill a pig, we can smoke the bacon and the hams, and make sausage an’ al like that,” (57).

42. Polysyndeton

43. “extinguishing fire with fierce fire”

44. Paradox

45. “…and hangs there motionless with a fixed expression, like a statue carved from Parian marble” (Bk. III: 402-436).

46. Simile

47. “But the man skilled in all ways contending, / satisfied by the great bow’s look and heft, / like a musician, like a harper, when / with quiet hand upon his instrument / he draws between his thumb and forefinger / a sweet new string upon a peg; so effortlessly / Odysseus strung the bow” (1255). (not epithet)

48. Epic Simile

49. “And now the land and the sea are not distinct, all is the sea, the sea without a shore” (Bk. I: 274-292).

50. Anadiplosis