Anglo-Saxon Figurative Language

Old English metaphorical, compound-word descriptions used to replace a noun

• Kenning

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Repetition of initial sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Caesura

In Old English poetry, the space at the end of or in the middle of lines used to indicate a pause for effect

• Caesura

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Whale-road" = sea is an example of

• Kenning

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The repetition of the same vowel sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Metaphor

Repetition of the same consonants anywhere within the word

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Caesura

What Anglo-Saxon poetic device is found in this line(hint: there are two):

"Then, when darkness had dropped, Grendel"

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Caesura

• Oral Tradition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which Anglo-Saxon poetic device is found in these lines:

“ . . . A powerful monster, living down

In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient

As day after day the music rang Loud in the hall . . .” ?

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Poetry

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

Which Anglo-Saxon poetic device is found in this line:

“So Hrothgar’s men lived happy in his hall”?

• Allteration

• Caesura

• Consonance

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which Anglo-Saxon poetic device is this an example of: “tormenter of their days”

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Kenning

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4