Unit 1

Question 0

The recurrence of of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables, as in “lively lads and lasses.”

Answer 0

Alliteration

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Personification

Question 2

A wandering minstrel

Answer 2

Scop

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Epic

Question 4

major pauses within lines, to contribute to rhythmic effect, marked in scansion by a double bar: //

Answer 4

Caesura

Question 5

lTraditionally a short, melodic, personally expres- sive poem

is not long, narrative, dramatic (in the sense of being written to be acted out), or expository (written merely to convey information).

Answer 5

Lyric poetry

Question 6

to delight and to teach

Answer 6

Didactic

Question 7

Originally any poem of solemn meditation. Now it is a formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or meditating on the subject of death itself.

Answer 7

Elegy (elegiac poetry)

Question 8

Vivid Angelo-Saxon descriptions that serve as a word pictures that dramatize the power of the poem

Answer 8

Kenning