Epic Poetry

Small plot

Villin

Normal setting

Lame theme

Epic Hero

Superhuman Strengths

"Circe turns the pigs back into men
but puts them all into a trance" (53-54).

Helped or harmed by Gods or fate

"On the way, he meets
the god Hermes, who gives
him a magical plant called moly
to protect him from Circe’s power" (48-50).

Embodies Qualities valued by a culture

"Cyclops, try some wine.
Here s liquor to wash down your scraps of men.
Taste it, and see the kind of drink we carried
under our planks. I meant it for an offering
if you would help us home" (256-259).

Overcomes perilous situations

"Eurylochus tells Odysseus what has happened
and begs him to sail away from Circe’s island.
Against this advice, however, Odysseus rushes
to save his men from the enchantress" (46-48).

Epic Plot

Epic Themes

Epic Setting

Metamorphoses-Ovid

Illiad- Homer

Odyssey- Homer

Aeneid- Virgel

Meter

Rhyme

Alliteration

Ephet

Another name for someone or something

"Son of great Laertes" (33).

Epic simily

comparison in the form of a
simile that are many lines in length

"None would attack oh, it was strange, I tell you
but switching their long tails they faced our men
like hounds, who look up when their master comes
with tidbits for them as he will from table" (5-8).

The term "epic" has been recycled.

The life and works of a heroic or mythology
person or group of persons.

Retells in continuous narritive

Broadl defined genera of poetry