One of the main uses of figurative language homer uses to build characteristics is an epic smile
This is proven when homer writes "The attackers struck like eagles…swooping down from a mountain ridge to harry smaller birds that skim across the flatland cringing under the clouds but the eagles plunge in fury, rip their lives out…never a chance of flight or rescue and people love the sport…so the attackers routed suitors headlong down the hall, wheeling into the slaughter, slashing left and right and grisly screams broke from skulls cracked open the whole floor awash with blood."