What are some devices employed by bards when reciting oral poetry?

Answer:
  1. Detailed descriptions
  2. Epithets adjective phrases that illustrate a certain quality of a thing -- if used repeatedly, an epithet becomes a stock phrase
  3. Invocations addresses to a higher power or authority
  4. Catalogues long lists of items or people
  5. Beginnings "in medias res in the middle of the action "
  6. Repetitions
  7. Epic similes extended or expanded comparisons
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