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Invocation to the Muse
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Break It Down! Invocation means to conjure or ask for help.
A Muse is a female goddess or spirit that would inspire the creative process.
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Let Me “A Muse” You! The Muses were the Greek goddesses of inspiration in literature, science and the arts. They were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (the personification of memory), and they were also considered water nymphs.
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Epithet An epithet is a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It can be described as a glorified nickname. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, etc. It can also be a descriptive title: for example, Auth0r of young Silvius’ birth=Aeneas (He is Silvius’ da).
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In Media Res Opening in the middle of the action
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Synesthesia Meaning a "mixing of senses," synesthesia occurs when one of the five senses is used in a description that normally calls for one of the other senses. When Dante says he was driven back to the place "where the sun is silent,” we wonder how the sun--usually associated with light and therefore sight--can have somehow lost its voice.
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