Question

I keep twenty geese in the house, from the water trough they come and peck their wheat – I love to watch them all.

What literary device is this passage to be using?
Portent
Dramatic irony
Flashback
Epithet

Answer 1

The right answer is B Dramatic irony. This literary device is defined as when the reader’s understanding of events exceeds what the characters in the text can get. An audience’s mindfulness of the situation in which a work’s characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters. In the excerpt Penelope is talking about a dream in which the suitors are killed and we can see the irony.

Answer 2

The literary device that is this passage to be using is Portent

Step-by-step explanation:

Portent is a literary device that warns the characters about the future events to happen when they are not going to be pleasant ones, then the lines "I keep twenty geese in the house, from the water trough they come and peck their wheat – I love to watch them all." is part of the dream that Penelope has that warns about the death of all the suitors.