Epic Poetry- Jordan

Epithet

an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

Epic Simile

an epic simile is a detailed comparison in the form of a simile that are many lines long.

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,"

Epithet

"Man of twists and turns,"

Epic Hero

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

Helped or harmed by gods or fate

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

Embodies Qualities values by a culture

"Amber honey mixed with Pramnian wine" Pg. 28

Overcomes perilous situations

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

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