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epic simile

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epic simile
n.
An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile.
epic simile
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an extended simile, as used in the epic poetry of Homer and other writers


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If she could not write a "legitimate" epic, it was possible to re-petition and re-cite the generic markers of the epic as a genre, the stylistic traits which indicate that the text "belongs" to the genre, such as the invocation of Calliope or the use of an epic simile or elevated style.
Re-membering America: Phyllis Wheatley's intertextual epic by Kendrick, Robert / African American Review
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