Unraveling Homer's Style

Vivid and descriptive imagery, wide range of similes, metaphors, and sensory language, creation of a vivid mental picture, rhythmic and poetic language, distinct meter and musicality, repeated phrases and epithets, use of epic conventions, simple and direct language.

Invocation of the muse, in media res, inclusion of long speeches and lengthy digressions.

To help with memorization and oral transmission.

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<p>Creation of a vivid mental picture</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Rhythmic and poetic language</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Invocation of the muse</p> Signup and view all the answers