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Epic
Epic and Conventions
Term | Definition |
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Epic | a long narrative poem, elevated in style, serious in subject matter and centured on a hero on whose actions depends the fate of a race or of a nation |
invocation of the muse | sometimes called epic questioning. Narrator speaks to the muse in the beginning |
catalogue | list of heroes or combatants or figures |
epic simile | elaborate vehicle becomes a digression |
structure | often Homeric 12 or 24 books |
epic speeches | formally delivered. Usually involves epic boast, moralizing, termination, posing epic questions, introducing events and speeches |
miluer | sense of the world |
freedom | freedom from the domination of observed fact |
Epic boast | "fame-winning deeds have come to my hands... I had bound five giants -- their blood was upon me" |
Epic Termination | "he ended" |