Vocab Set #1

poetic figurative device used in Anglo Saxon verse to replace the single name of an object or person.

• Kenning

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Metaphor

a literary device used frequently in Anglo Saxon verse in which a series of words has the same initial consonant sound of words

• Kenning

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Epic Simile

a stop or pause in a rhythmic line

• Kenning

• Caesura

• Alliteration

• Simile

a noun or noun phrase that provides further information about the noun next to it in a sentence.

• Paraphrase

• Appositive

• Solace

• Caesura

a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.

• Paraphrase

• Solace

• Appositive

• Text Evidence

comfort in time of distress

• Solace

• Inconsolable

• Appositive

• Empathy

not able to be comforted

• Solace

• Inconsolable

• Paraphrase

• To comfort

a long, serious poem written about a specific event with a hero

• Epic Poem

• Epic Hero

• Monologue

• Ballad

a brave protagonist in an epic poem that defeats impossible odds

• Epic Hero

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Epic Villain

making amends for a wrong that has been done to someone

• Reparation

• Purge

• Epic Poem

• Consolation