Literary Terms
A poem of mourning or lamentation
Elegy
True or false: The Anglo-Saxons valued humility and peacefully resolving conflicts.
Definition of an elegy
Poem of mourning or lamentation
Definition of epic poem
Long narrative poem focused on the glorification of a hero and their heroic deeds
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
Alliteration
The Anglo-Saxons take pride in...
Physical strength and battle heroics
Elegies often explore the loss of...
Home or community
Epic poems preserve...
The history, culture, and values of a particular race
Oral storyteller
Scop
Anglo-Saxon word for fate
Wyrd
Common motifs in elegies are...
Exile, loss, mourning
What kinds of forces does the hero usually fight?
Supernatural forces
Compound noun phrase that represents another noun
Kenning
The highest threat to the Anglo-Saxon social order would be...
Treachery or disloyalty
The Wife's Lament is about...
A wife's separation from her husband following a conspiracy hatched by her husband's warriors
The story ends with the...
Glorification of the hero
Break in the middle of a line of poetry, marked by punctuation
Caesura
Code of mutual obligation between warriors and lords
Motif in elegies in which the speaker asks a series of questions cataloging losses; means "where have they gone?" in Latin
Ubi sunt
Where the story begins; means "in the middle of things"
In media res