La epic is a literary genre in which the author presents facts objectively legendary fictional or developed in time and space. The author uses as the usual form of expression narrative, but can also be description and dialogue . In some cases, the epic is not written, but rather told orally by the bards . " (Wikimedia Commons)
The image you see is a sculpture of the poet most famous classical antiquity: Homer. This poet is the author (although there are discussions about) the most famous epics of classical antiquity: The Iliad and the Odyssey , composed circa 800 BC C.
or literary techniques used by Homer
Epithets: very useful not only in ancient epics but also in later epic poems of the Middle Ages. Through them the author draws the attention of the recipient on some meaning. We can distinguish:
a) pure epithets, are adjectives that are added to nouns to highlight a quality that is characteristic of that noun. In a way, the information provided is redundant, but serve to alert the receiver on that word. Eg "acute sword", " baladoras goats", "long spear", "long craft rowing", "rowers banks", etc.
b) fixed epithets, are phrases or adjectives, pointing qualities of each hero, and are generally commas. Eg: "Achilles, swift of foot," "Eos, daughter of the morning," "Stormy Zeus."
Comparison: linking strategy elements to highlight a similarity between the two: " ... and howling his heart on his chest, like a bitch, to get their pups, howl the unknown and want to rush you ... " (Odyssey, singing XX) or to make a difference ... " was a prodigious monster, not at all like men who eat bread ..."
Anticipations: are signs that advertise or foretell future events:
Eg: "... The skinny fatal Hector just stopped ..." (Iliad, Canto XXII)
Story framed
Narrator fluctuating
direct style
indirect style
fixed Metaphors
0 comments:
Post a Comment