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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of film, play, book etc.
action thriller
adaptation
Afrofuturism
allegorical
anime
bodice-ripper
boy-meets-girl
director's cut
noir
non-documentary
non-literary
one-shot
paean
parody
period piece
potboiler
sequel
stream of consciousness
tragicomedy
weepy
epic
adjective
uk /ˈep.ɪk/ us /ˈep.ɪk/
in the style of an epic: 史诗般的;鸿篇巨制的;壮丽的
epic filman epic film about the Roman Empire古罗马帝国题材的史诗电影
used to describe events that happen over a long period and involve a lot of action and difficulty: 艰苦卓绝的；漫长而艰难的
epic journeyJames has walked 1,000 miles in an epic journey across Africa.
epic struggleIt's been an epic struggle to keep social services going throughout the recession.
[ before noun ]informal
extremely large: 巨大的，庞大的
epic proportionThe problem of inflation has reached epic proportions.通货膨胀问题已经到了极其严重的地步。
epic failHis first year in office has been an epic fail.
Many people thought the decision was an epic blunder.
informal
extremely good: 绝妙的，令人惊叹的，极好的
The Hulk roller coaster ride was epic.绿巨人过山车实在是太棒了。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of film, play, book etc.
action thriller
adaptation
Afrofuturism
allegorical
anime
bodice-ripper
boy-meets-girl
director's cut
noir
non-documentary
non-literary
one-shot
paean
parody
period piece
potboiler
sequel
stream of consciousness
tragicomedy
weepy

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Lasting for a long time
Enormous
Extremely good

epic | American Dictionary

epic
noun[ C ]
us/ˈep·ɪk/
a book or movie that is long and contains a lot of action, usually about a subject from the past
literature
An epic is also a long poem about events in the past, often involving gods or kings and queens:
The Iliad is the most famous Greek epic.
epic
adjective
us/ˈep·ɪk/
happening over a long period and including a lot of difficulties:
an epic struggle to achieve equality for African Americans

Examples of epic

epic
An epic of visionary leadership reified in institutions?
There is also no dearth of commentary on the interpretations of the lessons of this epic poem.
There is a whole number of themes on the grand scale, heroic and epic, which music can provide.
In his view, we all are heroes on an epic quest!
But song opera aspired to epic status, something most clearly seen in the relationship between chorus and soloists.
Despite their enormous numbers, the role of the lesser gentry in the epic battle of commercial versus gentle mores is virtually never mentioned.
It is an epic that awaits its historian.
X is surjective and i so split epic.
How will the national epic be hybridized within the context of empire?
Breakout into lyric voice is not infrequent in other early epics.
No writer on architecture conveyed quite the same sense of an epic struggle with his or her subject.
This example gives an uninteresting weak inclusion system, but it shows us that the condition ' contains only epics ' is independent.
Not in vain were the author and reciter of the epic called sarvadarshi, all-seeing.
He has the same deeply penetrating and all-seeing eye, the same all-embracing keenness of observation that the epic has.
This poem discloses the epic ambition of the sequence : namely to write the land clear again, to redeem it, as it were, of colonial guilt.
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