Classics - Homer's Style

Classical similes

hissed round the olive stake in the same way that an axe or adze hisses when a smith plunges it into cold water to quench and strengthen the iron

Repetition - easier to remember

as soon as dawn appeared fresh and rosy fingered

Repetition - to remind his audience of key information

a god is going to make your journey hard. For I cannot think that you will escape the attention of the Earthshaker

Teiresias

Foreshadowing

Nor have they an inkling of the dark fate that is stalking so near

Athene speaking with Telemachus about the suitors

Dramatic Irony

As for my old master…he would’ve looked after me properly

Eumaeus speaking with Odysseus

Anagnorisis

I am your father

Odysseus reveals himself to his son

Epithet

resourceful Odysseus

bright-eyed Athene