The document outlines some key conventions and literary devices used in Homeric epics including:
1) The hero's adventure which is the central focus.
2) Invocations to the muse which call for inspiration and state the subject/theme.
3) Beginning in medias res in the middle of action requiring flashbacks.
4) Use of stock epithets or repeated descriptive phrases for characters.
5) Epic similes which use extended comparisons to nature to depict heroic events.
6) Extensive monologues allowing for flashbacks and character development.
7) Intervention of the gods showing a cultural perspective of Greek deities.
8) Use of dactylic hexameter as
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