PY - R - W1 - Hymns

Question 1

Old English Poetry Manuscript

Answer 1

• One long continuous string of words
• Careful Spacing

Question 2

Lyric (Historically)

Answer 2

poem sung to the accompaniment of a lyre

Question 3

Lyric poetry comprises

Answer 3

• songs
• ballads
• lays
• odes
• hymns

Question 4

Carmina

Answer 4

Medieval Latin hymns

Question 5

Courtly-love Lyrics

Answer 5

• Renaissance England
• High Social Circles
• Romantic passion
• Pressing Promises of love & Gentle warnings of passing time

Question 6

Old English Poetry Themes

Answer 6

• Christian Themes :
• • morality
• • stoïcism
• • biblical hist.
• • wisdom
• Germanic Themes :
• • Skill in battle
• • Drinking
• • Riddles
• • Doom

Question 7

Vikings attack and successfully colonize NE Enlgand (739)
- It brings ___ ?

Answer 7

Nordic and Danish vocabulary and stories into English Language

Question 8

Germanic Verse

Answer 8

• Short line lenght
• Alliteration (initial sound/letter)
• Variation (multiple names)
• Formulas (repeated blocks of words)
• Compounding
• Caesura
• Stress (1-2, 1) Alliteration Based

Question 9

repetition of initial sounds and letters (Consonance)

Answer 9

Alliteration

(can also be w/ vowels)

Question 10

multiple names for the same thing

Answer 10

Variation

Question 11

repeated blocks of words

Answer 11

formulas

Question 12

e.g. gleobeam, ‘glee-beam’ = harp (process)

Answer 12

Compounding

Question 13

midline pause

Answer 13

caesura

Question 14

Old English Verse stress

Answer 14

Stress = Alliteration
Each line = 2 half lines (w/ caesura)
1st half = 1-2
2nd half = Only 1

Question 15

Old English Poetry Manuscript

Answer 15

• One long continuous string of words
• Careful Spacing

Question 16

Old English (Poetic Figures)

Answer 16

(-) Simiiles - Metaphors
+ Metonymy, Synecdoche and Litotes (understatement)
+ Kenning (most distinctive)

Question 17

Comparison ‘‘like, as’’ (Figure)

Answer 17

Simile

Question 18

A is B (figure)

Answer 18

Metaphor

Question 19

A part of something to identify the whole thing

Answer 19

Metonymy

Question 20

The name of an attribute of a thing is subtituted for the thing itself (Figure)

Answer 20

Metonymy
E.g. Ottawa wants to raise taxes (meaning the government)

Question 21

Part in place of the whole, the container for the contained (figure)

Answer 21

SYNECDOCHE

E.g. Ruthless bronze hacking their lines to pieces!
(Greek swords and spears are bronze things, hence genus replaces species).

Question 22

Understatement for rhetorical effect -
especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary (figure)

Answer 22

litotes

Question 23

compound term (base-word + referent) by way of defining something by what it is not.

(figure)

Answer 23

Kenning - (riddles in miniature)

(e.g. hron-rad, or ‘swan’s road’ for ‘sea’)

Question 24

Kennings have the quality of _____.

Answer 24

Riddles in miniature

Question 25

Alliteration

Answer 25

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning

Question 26

Device used to aid recall

Answer 26

Mnemonic (e.g a rhyme or acronym)

Question 27

What holds togoether the two half lines separated by caesura?

Answer 27

The Mnemonic (in English Alliterative Verse)