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| long narrative poem written in elevatedd sytle realating the extraordinary deeds of legendary national heroes. |
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| figure of imposing stature; national or international importance, and of great historical of legendary significane. |
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| speech/saying (each book/chanpter is one) |
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| one of nine daughters of zeus and mnomostne. each daughter governed a different art or sciece and provided inspiration for artists. |
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| begins in the middle of things |
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| a long, elaborate comparison that often continues for a number of lines |
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| composed for listening audience, to be recited or sung. |
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| composed to be read by learned people, not for listening |
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| treating of a trivial subject in a pompous, graniose manner |
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| the regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllabes in a line of poetry. each unit of meter is known as a foot, which consists of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables. |
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| a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated for effect or emphasis |
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| the occurrence of a similar or identical sound at the ends of two or more words |
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| the pattern of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables |
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| from the greek meaning "first moulded as a pattern";the pprototype. in literary criticism, the word is most often used to refer the characters, plots, themes and images that recur throughout the history of literature, both oral and written |
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| traditional descriptive phrase (usually hyphenated ajjective) |
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