description

• the use of description of everyday things in the middle of fantasy brings it alive
• blade of Calypso's axe and it's 'handle of olive-wood fixed firmly to it's head'
• Penelope's 'bronze key with an ivory handle'
• easily impagined by the audience
• wicker cheese-baskets and bowls swimming with whey make the cabe look like a dairy
• twirling drill simile makes the blinding look like an engineering project
• communication used in subtlety: Telemachus 'glanced at his father with a smile'
• small actions can engage the audience at a mundane level e.g. Odysseus examining the bow for woodworm