Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards
What is the expression of an idea in a roundabout more elegant way?
Periphrastic Epithet
What is the repetition of an idea in different words with the same grammatical form?
Variation
What is a metaphoric compound of two words?
Kenning
What is a long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national hero?
Epic
What is concerned with teaching; it’s method is to implant a pattern or heroic conduct in the reader’s mind?
Didactic
What is a standard type or category of literature?
Genre
What is a concise, anonymous narrative poem intended to be sung; characterized by simple verse?
Ballad
What is the recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stresses syllables?
Alliteration
What is the giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person ?
Personification
What are wandering minstrels who sang to entertain chieftains, warriors and their retainers in mead halls?
Scop
What are major pauses within lines marked in scansion by a double bar?
Caesura
What is traditionally short, melodic; personally expressive poem; a poem that isn’t long, narrative, dramatic (in sense of being written to be acted out) or expository (written merely to convey information)?
Lyric Poem
Any poem of solemn mediation; a formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or mediating on the subject of death itself?
Elegy
What is the Anglo-Saxon concept of Fate?
Word
