Old English Poetry

Question 1

Old English

Answer 1

5th-11th centuries

Question 2

Middle English

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12th-15th centuries

Question 3

Early Modern English

Answer 3

late 15th century to late 17th century

Question 4

Modern English

Answer 4

1890-1950

Question 5

Manuscripts

Answer 5

Everything is handwritten in Middle Ages

Question 6

Codicology

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Study of books

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Paleography

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Study of writing (handwriting)

Question 8

Gloss(es)

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Word(s) inserted in the margin or between the lines of a text to clarify or comment on it. (internal glossary)

Question 9

Who is Bede? And what is he famous for?

Answer 9

• Bede was in a monastery his entire life.
• He wrote down the eclesiastical history of the english people
• FATHER OF LITERARY HISTORY

Question 10

Caedmon’s Hymn

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• Caedmon was at a feast and left due to his inability to sing, he went to the stable and ended up falling asleep
• He began singing in his sleep about praising God and all creation, when He woke up he remembered what he had sung and began adding verses
• He goes to the monastery and Monas Hild
• They deemed this a gift from the heavenly Lord
• Enters in the monastery, they began giving him scriptures which he interpreted and turned into lyrical verses
• 14 days before his death he knew he would die
• He asked for Eucharist from his peers and those in charity with himself in God
  -He dies in his sleep after receiving Eucharist and was aware of his death/foreknowledge

Question 11

Caesura

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Gap or break in the middle of a line of poetry

Question 12

Trochee

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( / U ) - is a stressed and then an unstressed syllable (Ex: Garden)

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Kenning

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Poetic naming, poetic term, a two word poetic renaming, (Ex: “whales’ home” for “the sea”)

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Assonance

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repeated vowel sounds in unrhymed, stressed syllables

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Alliteration

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repeated initial consonant sounds in stressed syllables.

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Scop

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traveling storytellers who created an oral tradition by memorizing, adapting, and passing along stories & songs.

Question 17

Litotes

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understatement for effect (deliberate in poetry)

Question 18

Homily

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Lesson (homeletic)

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Contemptus Mundi

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he idea of nothing in this world has value therefore latch onto heavenly things. (Ex: the wise man’s ideas (mentality) in the Wanderer Line 73)

Question 20

Ubi Sun

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rhetorical question that has the answer in it (Ex: “where are those things that have gone?”)

Question 21

Anglo-Saxon (Code/Elements)

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• Heroic (deeds of bravery, loyalty is valued, vengeance is valued, desire for treasure)
• Elegiac (exile, lament for loss of worldly things, yet desire to transcend the world for heavenly things)

Question 22

Eulogy

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Song of praise

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Elegy

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a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

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Admonish

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warn or reprimand someone firmly

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Sentinel

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a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch

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fervent

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having or displaying a passionate intensity

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rancor

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bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing

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compassionate

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feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others

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Rapture

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a feeling of intense pleasure or joy