oral techniques in Homer's writings

Question 1

what is oral composition?

Answer 1

the use of oral speaking rather than writing

Question 2

what are the benefits of oral composition?

Answer 2

-speaking can have a lot more emotion than writing something down and you can put a lot more emotion into certain words or phrases.

Question 3

what is an epithet?

Answer 3

a literary device that describes a person, place or object by placing a descriptive word in front of the name, e.g ‘bright eyed athene’, ‘stormy-eyed athene’

Question 4

what is repetition at word level?

Answer 4

when a single word or phrase is repeated within a short period of time for effect

Question 5

what is repetition at scene level?

Answer 5

when a single scene is repeated continously within a short period of time or within the book as a whole. This is also used for effect

Question 6

what is homeric ring composition?

Answer 6

formal device of signalling a closure/ the end of something by repeating at the end a theme announced at the beginning

Question 7

what is hysteron proteron?

Answer 7

when someone says that they will do something in a particular sequence but ends up doing it in the reverse order

Question 8

what is an anachronism?

Answer 8

an error of chronology- an object or event is placed in the wrong period of time e.g having characters use words from a different time period.

Question 9

what is an example of an anachronism in the odyssesy?

Answer 9

Homer references iron tools and tribes that hadn’t yet reached Greece by the Bronze age