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Literary Skill: The Epic Simile Advanced Skill: Analyze Epithet Detecting Imagery. The Death of Hector from the Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles. Extended comparisons Color and amplify Digression from the plot. Epic Simile or Homeric Simile. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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THE DEATH OF HECTORFROM THE ILIAD BY HOMER, TRANSLATED BY ROBERT FAGLES
Literary Skill: The Epic SimileAdvanced Skill: Analyze Epithet
Detecting Imagery
EPIC SIMILE OR HOMERIC SIMILE Extended comparisons Color and amplify Digression from the plot
EPIC SIMILEEXAMPLE – DESCRIPTION OF ACHILLES' SPEAR
“Bright as that star amid the stars in the night sky, / star of the evening, brightest star that rides the heavens, / so fire flared from the sharp point of the spear Achilles / brandished.”
CLOSE READINGMETACOGNITIVE STRATEGY: LADDERS OF QUESTIONS
Reread the simile in lines 139-145. Paraphrase the text to ensure understanding. Literal Question: What things are being
compared in the simile? Interpretive Question: What might this simile,
and others in the story, tell you about Homer’s listeners?
Experiential Question: How do animals behave when they are hunting? How do they behave when they are being hunted?
EPITHET Phrases that include adjectives
describing characteristics of a person or thing.
Aid to listener to identify. Aid to oral story teller to maintain
meter and recall plot.
EPITHET EXAMPLES
“swift Achilles” “swift racer Achilles” “brilliant Achilles” “proud runner Achilles”
“Hector, breaker of horses”
CLOSE READING PRACTICE
Re-read lines 98-110 from “With that” to “my fighting strength.”
What epithets describe Hector? What evidence in the passage supports
the epithets used to describe Hector? What additional epithet does Homer
include? How do the epithet’s contribute to the
tone of the passage?
IMAGERY Writing that speaks to or engages the
senses.
VOCABULARY THAT ADDRESSES THE SENSES
Find the following words in the text: lethal (line 51)
onslaught (line 76) gluts (line 91) rend (line 194) defiled (line 253)• Explain how each word contributes to
the imagery of battle.