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Trojan War: Epic & Literary Elements
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| catalog | listing of ships, warriors, and armies |
| invocation of the muse | initial request for divine inspiration |
| in medias res | “in the middle of things”; beginning the epic in the heat of a conflict |
| genealogy | passage in which two heroes, meeting on the battlefield, exchange stories of their ancestors before they fight |
| ekphrasis | an extended description (often symbolic) of a work of art, real or imaginary, in a work of literature |
| epithet | stock descriptive phrase; sometimes used ironically |
| epic simile | an elaborate figure of speech that expresses similarity between two unlike objects |
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