What term best defines the epic convention that is exhibited in this stanza? “there were saddened hearts in mudville for a week or even more; there were muttered oaths and curses – every fan in town was sore. ‘just think,” said one, “how soft it looked with casey at the bat! and then to think he’d go and spring a bush-league trick like that.’” lengthy speeches invocation of the muse in medias res the hero’s journey