Anglo-Saxon unit test

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of the first sound of words

Question 2

kenning

Answer 2

using a phrase to refer to someone or something while not saying its name

Question 3

1st reading + author

Answer 3

Beowulf
Seamus Heaney

Question 4

2nd reading + author

Answer 4

“the ecclesiastical history of the English Peopel”
The Venerable Bede
Translator: Bertram Colgrave

Question 5

3rd reading + author

Answer 5

the Seafarer
Burton Raffel

Question 6

heroic code

Answer 6

people in same tribe have to be very loyal and respectful of eachother (worst sin to betray)

Question 7

weregild

Answer 7

the value placed on every human life + piece of property in germanic law

Question 8

meter

Answer 8

a generally regular pattern of stressed + unstressed syllables in poetry
for “flow” and sound of the poem (oral)

Question 9

caesura

Answer 9

a break or pause in line of poetry (//)

Question 10

imagery

Answer 10

describing an object with your 5 senses

Question 11

symbolism

Answer 11

any object or noun that has a meaning of itself but stands for something elsev

Question 12

verse

Answer 12

one line of poetry

Question 13

genre

Answer 13

category of literature charachterized by its type of style + plot

Question 14

historical narrative

Answer 14

-story of real life event either told by actual person or someone who has studied it