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Epic (Homeric) Similes

Epic (Homeric) Similes. Epic Similes are elaborate comparisons that may extend over multiple lines in a text and may or may not use the words like , as , just as , or so . Example from The Cyclops : Here are the means I thought would serve my turn:

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Epic (Homeric) Similes

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  1. Epic (Homeric) Similes Epic Similes are elaborate comparisons that may extend over multiple lines in a text and may or may not use the words like, as, just as, or so. Example from The Cyclops: Here are the means I thought would serve my turn: A club, or staff, lay there along the fold- An olive tree, felled green and left to season For Cyclops’ hand. And it was like a mast, A lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam- A deep-sea-going craft-might carry: So long, so big around, it seemed. • What 2 things are being compared? • What details make this an epic simile rather than just a simile?

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