VHD Anglo Saxon Poetry Test

What is an elegy?

• A poem that expresses grief or mourning.

• A poem that was originally spoken rather than read.

• A poem about travelers.

• A translation of an old poem.

What does the author of “The Wanderer” seem to miss most?

• material possessions

• adventure

• companionship

The narrator of "The Seafarer" states that he never has feared the sea.

• True

• False

The people in landlocked villages will never understand this speaker in which poem?

• "The Seafarer"

• "The Wanderer"

• "The Wife's Lament"

"Distance was safety; the only survivors" shows an example of...

• allusion

• kenning

• caesura

According to the narrator of "The Seafarer," man's goal is to get to Heaven.

• True

• False

In "The Wife's Lament", where does the man go when he leaves his woman?

• To a castle

• To fight Grendel

• Candyland

• Across the sea

The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry

• allusion

• anachronism

• alliteration

"Shelterer of warriors" is an example of

• alliteration

• assonance

• kenning

What initiated the wife’s exile in “The Wife’s Lament”?

• Her husbands family betrayed her

• Her husband’s family loved her

• Her husband’s family didn’t like her

• She was known as melancholy