Terms

Question 0

The giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person

Answer 0

Personification

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Variation

Question 2

The recurrence of consonant at then beginning of nearby stressed syllables

Answer 2

Alliteration

Question 3

Professional minstrels who compose and recite tribal gatherings

Answer 3

Scop

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Epic

Question 5

A break between words in a metrical foot

Answer 5

Caesura

Question 6

Express personal, emotional, feelings and traditionally spoken in the present tense

Answer 6

Lyric poetry

Question 7

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Answer 7

Didactic

Question 8

A formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or meditating on the subject of death itself

Answer 8

Elegy

Question 9

A metaphoric compound of two words

Answer 9

Kenning

Question 10

The expression of an idea in a more roundabout, more elegant way

Answer 10

Periphrastic epithet

Question 11

a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter

Answer 11

Genre