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Add to your Interactive Notebook… Table of Contents 21-22: Homer Words Worth Knowing Epic: Long story told in elevated language (usually poetry), which relates the great deeds of larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society. Rhapsode: Wandering bards or minstrels; they were the historians, entertainers, and mythmakers of their time.

Add to your Interactive Notebook… Table of Contents 23-24: The Odyssey: Tell the Story Words Worth Knowing Epic Simile: Extended comparisons of heroic or epic events to simple and easily understandable everyday events. Epithet: Adjective or descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing.