Anglo Saxon Literature Pretest

What word means to advise or urge someone to use caution?

• fervent

• sentinel

• admonish

• rancor

What word represents a person or animal that guards?

• sentinel

• rancor

• fervent

• rapture

What word represents ill will and/or a continuing feeling of bitter hate?

• rapture

• rancor

• fervent

• admonish

What word is used to describe having a great warmth of feeling?

• compassionate

• rapture

• fervent

• sentinel

What Anglo Saxon literary device represents the pause for breath in the middle of lines?

• caesuras

• assonance

• alliteration

• elegy

What word describes the feeling to sympathize or show pity?

• compassionate

• sentinel

• fervent

• admonish

What word represents the feeling of joy or great pleasure?

• kennings

• fervent

• rapture

• rancor

All three poems, "The Seafarer," "The Wanderer," and "The Wife's Lament" are considered to be examples of which type of poetry?

• Allegory

• Ballad

• Elegy

• Prose

What does imagery do in poetry? (Check all that apply)

• draws the readers into a sensory experience

• creates similar snapshots in a reader's mind

• appeals only to our sense of sight, smell, and touch.

• uses an object to represent an idea.

• helps readers imagine exactly what is being described.

An elegy is _____.

• a song or poem expressing curiosity especially about the meaning of life

• a song or poem expressing concern especially for a loved one

• a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead

• a song or poem expressing enthusiasm or joy especially about nature