Literary techniques and composition

Question 1

bard

Answer 1

A public storyteller who recited vast amount of poetry to the accompaniment of the liar often during banquets

Question 2

Oral poem

Answer 2

A poem that is composed and told without the use of writing

Question 3

epithet

Answer 3

An adjectival word or phrase regularly added to a name to denote a personal or physical quality

Question 4

formula

Answer 4

A selection of epic poems longer than an epithet that is regularly used to describe a person place or object

Question 5

Simile

Answer 5

A figure of speech whereby one thing is compared to another thing of a different kind in order to make a description more vivid

Question 6

topos

Answer 6

A poetic scene that occurs regularly which is made-up of a series of standard elements

Question 7

Dramatic irony

Answer 7

When a character does not know the full significance of what is happening or being said but the readers do

Question 8

pathos

Answer 8

literary suffering in Greek an appeal to the reader’s emotions by inviting them to feel pity and sadness