Gold Hammered
What literary device is used in this quote? "Gifts of gold hammered"?
Because gold is extremely malleable, it can be formed by hammering. Gold is expensive, so a gift of gold hammered the intrinsic value and requires significant manufacturing. If the gifts in your example is nothing but the real gold articles, a book of poems, for example, then the device is a literary metaphor, another way of say the poems are the work and have value. However, the most common form of "hammered gold is gold leaf, gold was hammered so thin that it can be used for ornamental purposes. Although the gold leaf has a value as it can also be a metaphor for something thing that seems rich, but no real substance. If your quote is from the Odyssey, gold is real but "the gifts of gold ..." is alliteration.
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