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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is Alliteration?
Something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described.
What is Connotation?
The type of literature genre that Beowulf is considered to be.
What is an Epic?
"In misery among the banished monsters, Cain's clan, whom the Creator had outlawed." (104-105)
What is Allusion?
An incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.
What is Allusion?
Pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style.
What is an Epic?
The type of poetry that Beowulf is considered to be.
What is Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
"The lord of the Shildings suffered under his load of sorrow" (148-149)
What is Alliteration?
A word that names or signifies something specific.
What is Denotation?
A period of literature intended to be orally transmitted, and almost all poems were intended for oral performance.
What is Anglo-Saxon Poetry?
"A powerful demon, a prowler through the dark" (86)
What is Connotation?
Beowulf could also be considered this instead of an epic.
What is Elegy?
Rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words.
What is Assonance?
A mournful or melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
What is Elegy?
"lamplight, lanterns for men" (95)
What is Assonance?
"this grim demon haunting the marches, marauding round the heath and desolate fens; he had dwelt for a time" (101-103)
What is Denotation?
A conventional poetic phrase used for or in addition to the usual name of a person or thing.
What is Kennings?
A break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line.
What is Caesuras?
"To shake with terror;........In shock the wretch.................... panicked and ran away with the precious........... metalwork" (2227-2230)
What is Caesuras?
Creator, The Eternal Lord, The Almighty
What is Kennings?