Gilgamesh - terminology

Today in class: 10/27
poetry terms:
couplet - a 2 line stanza in poetry
epithet - an adjective or adjective phrase that expresses characteristic qualities of the noun it modifies; a babbling brook or a swelling sea. Example from the text, "the strongest one of all," "the perfect," "the terror"
repetition - used to add emphasis in poetry to a particular phrase - sometimes to help establish a pattern structure