Alexander Pope has long been considered one of the greatest satirists that English literary tradition has ever seen. ... Pope tells us that with the aid of certain devices he will explore this theme, and it is at this point that we become acquainted with the "machinery" of the poem. ... This is only one of many striking examples of Pope's use of bathos as a device to aid his satire. ... As the term suggests, the mock epic genre parodies the classical epic; it is constructed around the same basic formula and employs the same devices and conventions as the epic itself, yet is based a...

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Although he accomplishes his goals in the end, his motivations and methods for doing so, combined with his unique perspective and characteristics, make it difficult to categorize him as a traditional literary hero. ... At the beginning of the play, he is snappish about the fact that "[the Court of Naples] never send money" (Brecht 1) because that was his foremost desire to gain from the devices and tools he invented. ...

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One of the examples is Iliad, which is extremely important from the European literary standpoint because it constitutes the beginning stages of the development of European literature (Hanczakowski 2001:23). ... Yet another important aspect of heroic tradition existed in Greek society and it found its way into the literary tradition. ... Through the rhetorical device of prosopopeia the cross presents Christ as warrior-hero battling the forces of evil on the cross. ...

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