English 1 Flashcards
Banished
Get kicked out of
Fiend
Evil spirit or demon
Lair
A wild animals resting place
Laments
Expression of sorrow
Reparation
Payment for loss or injury
Affliction
State of pain or grief
Proclaiming
To announce or declare
Omens
A warning of future events
Dwellings
Where someone lives
Purge
To exterminate or cleanse
Relished
Enjoyed greatly
Cowering
To crouch down in fear
Angelo Saxon lyrics
Started as spoken poems that were east to memorize
Heroic poetry
Tells the tales of warriors and heroes
Elegiac poem
A type of lyric poem where the loss of someone or something is mourned
Scop
Story teller that moved from town to town and knew a wide range of stories to tell
Caesura
A break in the line of poetry
Kenning
A two word metaphor that represents something known
Ex: “sea road”
Epic Poem
Long narrative poem
Epic hero
A character that has all the characteristics of a hero