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 -