Music I
Music II
Real Epics
Epics II
100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j2GMWIPaIs
What is epic simile? (Long, extended simile/metaphor... heart = stereo... beats for you... turn me up... sing along... etc)
100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=468LxGJlJHc
What is epic invocation? (author calls upon God to help him speak)
100
“I sing of arms and the man fated to be an exile” (opening lines of the Aeneid).
What is statement of theme?
100
“To land of gloom with tramp of doom, with roll of drum, we come, we come; To Isengard with doom we come! With doom we come, with doom we come!” (The Lord of the Rings)
What is repetition?
200
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XfRjVo5wOE (:46)
What is repetition? (Purposes of repetition... emphasize important points, make it easier for the poet to memorize and compose spontaneously)
200
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50p-XScreM
What is epic catalogue?
200
“Beowulf spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: ‘Sorrow not, sage! It beseems us better friends to avenge than fruitlessly mourn them. Each of us all must his end abide in the ways of the world; so win who may glory ere death! When his days are told, that is the warrior's worthiest doom’” (Beowulf).
What is a formal speech?
200
“There were two men staying with King Ingjald at this time, as his champions and land-wards: Hjalmar the Great-Heart and Odd the Traveller who was called Arrow-Odd” (Hervarar Saga).
What is epithet?
300
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UyzM0KhRr0
What is statement of theme? (tells you what the whole story is about in the very beginning)
300
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmL5G0ctiHM
What is repetition? (purposes of repetition... emphasize important points, make it easier for the poet to memorize and compose spontaneously)
300
“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost” (Dante’s Inferno). (opening lines)
What is "in media res"? (in the middle of the conflict)
300
“Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos” (Paradise Lost) .
What is epic invocation?
400
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsj2wdFDmLk
What is "in media res"? (begins in the middle of the conflict)
400
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DBvKcfaq9U (3:05)
What is epic catalogue? (purposes... give a sense of greatness/immensity... record important history, etc)
400
“As is the generation of leaves on the ground, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies” (Iliad).
What is epic simile? (long, extended, multi-part simile)
400
"Then Shamash heard the prayer of Gilgamesh and raised up thirteen storms against Huwawa; the Wind of Simurru and the North Wind and the South Wind and the West Wind and the East Wind and the Bone- Cold Wind and the Great Storm Wind and the Great Snow Wind And the Ice Wind and the Sand Wind and the Screaming Wind and the Devil Wind and the Bad Wind..." (Gilgamesh)
What is epic catalogue?
500
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw6_VXPwm6U (1:12)
What is a formal speech? ("I heard them say: "Carry on...")
500
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooq3JbWbdjk
What is epithet? ("Bad, bad Leroy Brown"; "Treetop Lover")
500
“The floor of the chamber was tessellated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep” (The Worm Ouroboros).
What is epic catalogue?
500
"Gilgamesh the strongest one of all, the perfect, the terror." (Gilgamesh)
What is epithet?
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