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What devices do bards use while reciting poetry to an audience?

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Detailed descriptions
Epithets adjective phrases that illustrate a certain quality of a thing -- if used repeatedly, an epithet becomes a stock phrase
Invocations addresses to a higher power or authority
Catalogues long lists of items or people
Beginnings "in medias resbeginning in the middle of the action "
Repetitions
Epic similes extended or expanded comparisons

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