Pope Rape of the Lock - Mock Heroic Features

Deals with heroic action - a struggle Scylla/Nisus

Details of preparation for battle

References

Invocations to the Muse

Aeneas on Tiber // Belinda on barge Achilles shield // Belinda's petticoat

Actual Classical Myth

Allusions

Features

Epic proposition Heroic couplets 5 cantos

Cave of Envy // Cave of Spleen

Fixed epithets Grandiloquent Hyperbolic Inflated

Idiom

The treatment of the card game Description of warrior arms

inversion of sentence structure personifications

Mock Heroic Features

genealogy of a weapon Heroic speeches by major protagonists

Epic similies

Diction

Rituals Belinda

Grandeur

Altars

Religion & Omens

Battles and feasts

Lord Petre Coffee

Sense of doom Deus ex machina

magic powers

Omnipotence

Clarissa's speech Sylphs Gnomes Jove

Good sense

Machinery

Moral

Women's foibles Trivialities Sin of Pride

Mock Heroic Features.mmap - 22/05/2009 - Roger Knight