Question

1. Refer to lines 478-480. What literary device is present in these lines? Provide evidence.
2. What is the effect of the literary device you identified from #1?
3. Refer to lines 276-277. Why are these lines ironic?
4. Refer to lines 194-197. What literary device is present in these lines?
5. What is the effect of the device you identified from #4?
6. Refer to lines 465-473. What is Odysseus doing in these lines?
7. What does your answer to #6 reveal about Greek culture? What do they think is important? Provide evidence.

Answer 1

1: A book

2: It showed Robert the right way to go

3: Because they should have shown him how to read not how to write

4: A knife

5: It was used to kill his enemy

6: He betrayed his friend

7: They are not very civilized people, they are mean and ruthless