Anglo-Saxon Literature

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Elegiac and Haiku

Elegiac and Heroic

Elevenie and Heroic

Elevenie and Hyperbole

a poem or a song written in honor of someone who is deceased.

a poem or a song written in to honor and celebrate a rite of passage.

a poem or a song written in honor of someone who defeats evil.

a poem or a song written in honor of someone who is a seafarer.

I could spend hours walking in the flowers.

Hear the mellow wedding bells.

The car danced across the icy road.

The terrible tiger tore the towel.

The terrible tiger tore the towel.

I made my way to the lake.

The car danced on the icy road.

She's thinner than a toothpick.

A caesura is always placed in the exact middle of a line of poetry.

´The purpose of using a caesura is to create a dramatic pause, which has a strong impact.

´It is usually marked by some form of punctuation such as a period, comma, ellipsis, dash, or two lines either slashed or upright //.

It is a two-part line – each line is separated by a pause or break in the middle of the line.

Imagery creates similar snapshots in a reader's mind.

Imagery uses an object to represent an idea.

Imagery can draw readers into a sensory experience.

Imagery helps readers imagine exactly what is being described.

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

It is a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human qualities and/or feelings.

It is the practice of using symbols to represent ideas and qualities.

It is an exaggerated statement of claim not to be taken literally.

It is the process of using a metaphorical two-word phrase in the place of a one-word concrete noun.

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Bible

Book of Ezekiel

Exeter Book

Epic of Gilgamesh

Allegory

Ballad

Elegy

Prose