What are the 7 characteristics of an epic and epic heroes?

Answer 1

An epic is some big event that seems more than an everyday life deal. For Example first day of school, prom, your fist job graduation, moving out of your parents house, getting married, the day a baby is born, ect. It is certain situations that only happen once. Or it could be a story like The Odyssey, written by Homer. It is an epic jounery traveled by the main character Odysseus, trying to find his way home to Ithaca.

Answer 2

1. A long narrative that reflects the values of the society. 2. Began as an oral tradition. 3. Written in an elevated style. 4. Original author is anonymous 5. Has a clear good v. evil struggle 6. The hero appears "larger than life" 7. The hero is on a very important quest with everything resting on his shoulders 8. There are gods or quasi-divine intervention in some way. An epic does not need to have every element to be considered epic.

Answer 3

1) Plot centers around a hero of unbelievable stature.The epic hero completes what everyone only attempts. In ancient epics, the hero often is either partially divine or at least protected by a god.

2) Involves deeds of superhuman strength and valor.Accomplish feats no real human could.

3) Vast setting. The action spans not only geographical but also often cosmological space: across land, sea, into the underworld, or thru space or time etc.

4) Involves supernatural and/or otherworldly forces.Gods, demons, angels, time/space travel, cheating death etc.

5)Sustained elevation of style.Overwritten. Overly formal, highly stylized. Memorize a line and be able to write that line, line number, and page number for test.

6) Poet remains objective and omniscient. The narrator sees and knows all and presents all perspectives. (What kind of narrator is this?)

Answer 4

an epic hero must have these 7 characteristics:

1. an epic hero must have a royal birth

2. an epic hero must have an epic flaw

3. an epic hero must perform extraneous tasks

4. an epic hero fights for his own honor and the deeds go to the community

5. an epic hero must NOT show cowardliness

6. an epic hero has physical suffering

7. an epic hero has an unusual death

Answer 5

To write an epic you must choose a hero and tell a story about them

Answer 6

a long narrative poem recounting the deeds of a hero

a work of literature or a film having heroic deeds as its subject matter

Answer 7

- written in an elevated language

-celebrates the life of a legendary hero
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is relatively short

Answer 8

list the qualities of an epic

Answer 9

animals, moral lesson