Similes
- Created by: lyd_kate
- Created on: 16-01-18 10:03
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- Similes
- Short comparisons
- Trojans run like fawns, look weak in comparison (22)
- Apollo descends like nightfall, characters should fear as no light, no hope (1)
- War
- Comparisons to lions and boars show bravery, natural imagery for agricultural society
- Menelaus delighted as a lion that comes across a great carcass, powerful (like lion) and has confidence, feels like situation is in his favour (3)
- Remembering times of peace (widens scope beyond war)
- Achilles chases Hector, pass the 'stone washing places where the wives... used to wash their clothes... when there was peace' (22)
- Shows the impact that the war has had on others, unable to perform basic tasks, war taken over lives
- Achilles chases Hector, pass the 'stone washing places where the wives... used to wash their clothes... when there was peace' (22)
- Pathos
- Patroclus likened to little girl crying whilst tugging at mother's skirt (16)
- Witnessed onslaught of Greeks, shows how warriors have a human side
- Simosius killed, compared to poplar cut down to make a beautiful chariot (4)
- Suggests great loss as capable of great things e.g the chariot
- Patroclus likened to little girl crying whilst tugging at mother's skirt (16)
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