Epic Poetry- Jordan
Purpose
Non- Features
Subtopic
Feautres
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
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.
