Myth Literary Terms
    myth -
     

    oral tradition -
     

    ritual -
     

    epic -
     

    folk epic -
     

    narrative poem –
     

    invocation –
     

    in media res –
     

    muse -
     

    hero -
     

    epithet -
     

    simile -
     

    epic simile (or Homeric simile) -
     

    metaphor -
     

    personification -
     

    repetition -
     

    hyperbole -
     

    foreshadowing -
     

    symbol -
     

    allusion -