English Vocab

Question 0

Variation

Answer 0

the repetition of an idea in different words with the same grammatical form.

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

To give human characteristics to anything that is not human

Question 2

Scop

Answer 2

An Old English poet or bard

Question 3

Epic

Answer 3

long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the
deeds of a national or ethnic hero

Question 4

Caesura

Answer 4

major pauses within lines, marked in scansion by a double bar

Question 5

Lyric poetry

Answer 5

Traditionally a short, melodic, personally expres- sive poem.

Question 6

Didactic

Answer 6

Concerned with teaching

Question 7

Elegy

Answer 7

Originally any poem of solemn meditation

Question 8

Kenning

Answer 8

poetic application of a very old tendency in English

Question 9

Periphrastic epithet

Answer 9

the expression of an idea in a roundabout. more ele- gant way.

Question 10

Genre

Answer 10

A standard type or category of literature

Question 11

Alliteration

Answer 11

The recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables