Beowulf Intro Quiz Flashcards
Rhythmic breaks in the middle of lines (where the reciter would pause for breath)
Caesuras
Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker
Lyric poem
Two word poetic renamings of people, places, and things
Kennings
The repetition of vowel sounds in unrhymed, stressed syllables
Assonance
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in accented syllables
Alliteration
A lyric poem mourning the loss of someone or something
Elegy
Ruled and heavily influenced by men
Patriarchal
The relationship between an individual, the tribe, the king, and the ancestors
Once ancestry as traced through patriarchs of the family
Your identity rested on this
Kinship
Meaning that the king ruled in consultation with knights; it was binding and it was a group mentality
Comitatus
Another word for knight
Thanes
The close social bonds among men of the tribe
Fraternity
The thing that determined actions
Glory
The chain of violence that resorted to killing one another in return for the death of a close friend or family
Revenge killings
When money was paid to the family of victims of murder that was a substitute for revenge killings
Werguild
The most important place that was a symbol of the kings power and was meant to be the safest place around
Mead hall
