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Epic Poetry- Jordan

Epic Poetry- Jordan

Epic Poetry- Jordan

Purpose

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Epic Hero
Overcomes perilous situations

"My great eye lost, and at Odysseus" Pg. 426

Embodies Qualities values by a culture

"Amber honey mixed with Pramnian wine" Pg. 28

Helped or harmed by gods or fate

"Far be that day, and dark the years between." Let him lose all companions" Pg. 450

Posses superhuman streangth

"Now he laid hands upon a bigger stone and wheeled around, titanic for the cast, to let it fly in the black-prowed vessel s track." Pg. 385

Literary Devices

"Man of twists and turns,"
Simile

"I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright's drill that men below,"

Epic Simile
an epic simile is a detailed comparison in the form of a simile that are many lines long.
Epithet
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.