the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is an alliteration?
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Alliteration
what literary term would this be 'Hot-hearted Beowulf was bent upon battle'?
100
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is a connotation?
100
connotation
Which literary term would this be “that demon, that fiend…” ?
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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is an allusion?
200
Allusion
What literary term would this be The Saga of Finn (1062-1158)?
200
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
What is a denotation?
200
denotation
What literary term is this "any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles..."?
300
Old English literature or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses literature written in Old English (Anglo-Saxon), in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
What is anglo-saxon poetry?
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Anglo-Saxon peotry
Which kind of writing is beowulf written in?
300
a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
What is an elegy?
300
elegiac
This ______ sense of fate and the inevitable passing away of things permeates "Beowulf." Despite the virtue and heroism of his confrontation with the dragon, even this event carries with it the doom of his people, since Beowulf knew he would not survive it.
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the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible .
What is assonance?
400
Assonance
What literary term is this “By God, punished forever for the crime,”?
400
of, relating to, or characteristic of an epic or epics.
What is Epic?
400
Epics
_____ are long narrative poems recounting warlike and heroic actions, with the leading characters being kings, princes, or other important people.
500
a pause near the middle of a line.
What is caesuras?
500
Caesuras
What literary term would this be? "Swaddled in flames, it came gliding and flexing and racing toward its fate"
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a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning
What is a kenning?
500
Kenning
What literary term would this be when "shepherd of evil" is used for Grendel?