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The man skilled in all ways of contending is an example of this literary device.

• invocation

• ambition

• liturgy

• epithet

a long comparison of two unlike things

• myth

• rhapsode

• epic simile

• metaphor

He was the blind teller of tales who first recorded The Iliad and The Odyssey

• Circe

• Homer

• Telemachus

• the Muse

a story told many times that serves to explain something about the world or a historical event

• epic

• myth

• invocation

• rhapsode

a long poem that tells about the adventures of a hero

• homeric simile

• epic

• invocation

• muse

in the first part of a story when the speaker asks for help from the gods

• muse

• homeric simile

• liturgy

• invocation

poetry with ten syllables per line, alternating an unstressed one with a stressed one

• run-on line

• iambic pentameter

• sonnet

• blank verse

several lines spoken by one character alone on stage

• sonnet

• monologue

• soliloquy

• aside

14 lines of poetry that rhymes and is written in iambic meter

• sonnet

• soliloquy

• blank verse

• end-stopped line

an expression that combines contradictory ideas together

• dramatic irony

• tragedy

• oxymoron

• tragic flaw