Epithets and Epithets and Epic SimilesEpic Similes

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EpithetsEpithets brief descriptive phrasesbrief descriptive phrases characterize a person or thingcharacterize a person or thing sometimes set off by commassometimes set off by commas used to help the rhapsode & listener better used to help the rhapsode & listener better

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EpithetsEpithets Examples of Epithets:Examples of Epithets:

Odysseus, master marinerOdysseus, master mariner Grey-eyed AthenaGrey-eyed Athena Muse, daughter of ZeusMuse, daughter of Zeus the ocean, the winedark seathe ocean, the winedark sea Rosy-fingered dawn Rosy-fingered dawn

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your own name. Consider your own name. Consider what you like to do, who your what you like to do, who your parents are, and what you are parents are, and what you are best known for.best known for.

Epic SimilesEpic Similes also known as the Homeric Similealso known as the Homeric Simile uses uses likelike or or asas comparison between two thingscomparison between two things an elaborate version of a regular an elaborate version of a regular

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Epic SimilesEpic Similes Example:Example: “And “And

OdysseusOdysseuslet the bright molten tears run let the bright molten tears run down his cheeks, weeping the way down his cheeks, weeping the way a wife mourns for her lord on the a wife mourns for her lord on the lost field where he has gone down lost field where he has gone down fighting” - Book 8 fighting” - Book 8

What is being compared?What is being compared?