Metaphor is the literary device in which two disconnected/different things are compared. Simile is also a comparison between two disconnected things, but simile uses words such as "like" or "as", while metaphor simple states that "one thing is another".
"<em>The crest of each of these waves was a hill</em>, from the top of which men surveyed, for a moment, a broad tumultuous expanse, shining and wind-riven." - Metaphor.
"As each wave came, and she [the boat] rose for it, <em>she seemed like</em> a horse making at a fence outrageously high." - Simile.
Personification gives human characteristics to objects, animals or ideas.
"If <em>this old fool woman, Fate</em>, cannot do better than this..." - Personification.
Symbolism is when a word is used to symbolize something else. In this example, "uncertainties" represent the waves.
"The open boat is described as 'bobbing along among the universe's uncertainties." - Symbolism.
A routine strengthens you mentally it keeps you from procrastinating or straying far from a set goal.
1 a: Frank CREATED his own website last month
b: Really? I DID NOT KNOW he had a computer
2 a: HAVE you ever BEEN to a second-hand shop?
b: Yes, last week actually.
3 a: HAVE you FOUND anything worth buying
b: Yes, a beautiful bag that ...
I'd say that all of these elements (Odysseus is returning to his home, Ithaca. He runs into a fierce storm. He has many adventures. He makes his way home.) are about D. heroism.
He managed to survive all of these events to return home to Ithaca.
