Anglo Saxon Lyric Elements
Patterns in the lines, often with strong beats
Regular Rhythms
A poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.
Lyric Poem
The scanning of a line of poetry to mark its stresses and meter.
Scansion
The particular words used in a work. (Word choice)
Diction
The "untying of the knot" or resolution - BONUS: Double your score if you can give me the french word we use for this.
Conclusion (BONUS: Denouement)
The repetition of consonant sounds in successive words.
Alliteration
A sustained, formal poem that mourns the loss of someone or something: a lament or sadily meditative poem on a solemn theme.
Elegy
Rhyming Couplet
A figure of speech that gives human qualities to animals, inanimate objects, or ideas.
Personification
The moment of highest and greatest tension in the story.
Climax
The repetition of vowel sounds in successive words
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Assonance
A type of narrative poem (especially popular in medieval lit) in which the poet pictures himself falling asleep and envisions a series of allegorical events or people.
Dream Vision Poem
Dream Allegory
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A form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative.
Allegory
The part of a plot which complicates the action from the conflict/inciting force to the climax.
Rising Action
The dividing of each line in the center into two half lines (Note: more noticeable in original Anglo-Saxon over modern translations.)
Caesuras
(sih-ZHOOR-uhs)
Play (or poem) featuring allegorical dramas with characters who personify moral qualities or actions used to teach lessons (didactic)
Morality Plays
A major change in structure, tone, or subject in a poem (or novel).
Shift
The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases, or clauses.
Anaphora
A motto, phrase, or quotation set at the beginning of a literary work (or one of its divisions) to suggest a theme.
Epigraph
Two-word metaphoric phrases that take the place of a noun.
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Kennings
Ex: A. whale-road = sea & B. swan-boat=ship
A song, transmitted orally, that tells a story
Ballad
In poetry, the continuation of a sentence without pause beyond the end of the line, couplet, or stanza.
Enjambment
A figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), an abstract quality, or a non-existent personage is addressed as though present.
Apostrophe
An adjective or brief phrase used to characterize a person, place, or thing, summarizing its most essential quality.
Epithet