1. The Epic
A quick overview

2. DO NOW: Journals
Please get the journals for your entire group, please.
Re-read yesterday’s entry.
Add more sensory details to your entry: what did you see, feel, hear, touch, taste, or smell?
Add personal reflections about the descriptions or events you have described.
You have 10 minutes to add to your entry from yesterday.

3. Example: ( proofreading page)
I was so scared for my first day I got up two hours early. I had to do my Hair five times just for it to look perfect. i was trying to make myself look older. I remember how I felt about the 6th graders when I was in 8th grade, i didn’t want any of the older kids to feel like that about me. I be changed my outfit about three times. 

4. New entry List all the attributes of a hero. What do heroes look like?
What do heroes do?
Where do they live?
How do they talk?

5. Epic Hero = Archetype An Epic Hero is the archetype of the hero.
This means the epic hero is the PERFECT example.
Other archetypes could be the femme fatale, the trickster, the great mother, the great father, the wanderer, the wise old man, the villain…
Archetypes show up again and again in a culture, almost like a formula.

6. Ingredients for an Epic Hero
1. Superior physical strength: a physically impressive hero of national or historical importance
2. Supreme ethical standards
3. A vast setting encompassing much of the known physical world and sometimes the Land of the Dead
4. Takes on tasks no one accepts or can accomplish

7. Ingredients for an Epic Hero
5. Works for the good of all society, not just self 6. A quest or journey undertaken in search for something of value 7. Involvement of supernatural forces 8. Glorification of the hero at the end

8. Epic Hero Is the central figure of the narrative
Embodies all the values and heroic ideals of a particular society
Of noble birth or high position
His actions determine the fate of many

9. The journey 3 phases of the hero journey:
Separation – a break away from local social order, the beginning of a quest.
Initiation – a long deep retreat inward with a series of chaotic encounters which provide new insight.
Return – reintegration into society, coming back as a more evolved, knowledgeable person

10. Epithet
An appositive phrase that describes a character, place or thing
The phrase involves the repetitive use of a phrase or word for the same object. 
It’s like a formula that the oral storyteller used over and over again.

11. Cornell Notes

12. Types of Epithets TYPES: When describing a person, it may indicate
a) Origin I Home 'spearmen who lived on the fertile soil of Larisa'
b) Patronymic 'Achilles son of Peleus'.
c) Appearance/State 'white-armed Andromache; 'fair-haired Menelaus'.
d) Skill/Art ‘resourceful Odysseus’; p.54 'swift-footed Achilles' .
e) Position 'Agamemnon, king of men'; 'sacred herald'.
f) Heroic quality “god-like Achilles”

13. Literary Devices Homeric or Epic Similes
Compare epic or heroic events to simple and everyday events the audience recognizes instantly
She brushed it away from his skin as lightly as when a mother/ Brushes a fly away from her child who is lying in sweet sleep.

14. Examples of Epic Similes
His rage, held hard on a leash, submitted to his mind, ( describe the comparison)
While he himself rocked, rolling from side to side
As a cook does a sausage, bid with blood
And fat, at a scorching blaze, without a pause,
To broil quick so he rolled it left to right...
( his rage is compared to? )

15. Literary Devices Epithets
Adjectives, appositives or appositive phrases that explain the noun or pronoun placed next to it:
Odysseus, raider of cities
Cronus, crooked minded beast
Great-hearted Odysseus
Light of my days, Telemachus
The purpose of epithets is to remind the listener/ reader of certain attributes of a character. It is direct characterization!

16. In media res
Latin ‘in the midst of things” – the exposition starts in the middle of an exciting event that gets developed later
Epics usually begin with action in the middle of the story
When you read the Odyssey from beginning to end, you actually start hearing about when Odysseus is washed up from a ship wreck and tells his story as a flashback.

17. What Makes a Hero
Disney archetypes : start at 2:56

18. Literary Devices Invocation
A prayer to the Muses asking for their help for the singer to tell the tale.
Sometimes, it will summarizes the plot of the tale to be told over a few days.
This is how the singer begins the tale.