... person. He is an omniscient narrator (he has access to every character's mind), he frequently gives insight into the thoughts and feelings of even minor characters, gods and mortals alike. The tone of the epic is awe-inspired, ironic, lamenting and pitying. Past tense is used in the written ... hearth gods; weather etc. The events of the epic narrative are already history to the Roman audience. The many dreams and prophecies of various characters reveal a veiled future to mortals and are the epic's strongest form of foreshadowing. Also, when Turnus kills Pallas, Virgil foreshadows Turn...

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