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Study Sheet: First six weeks Literary Terms/Elements

• Hyperbole: She is the wisest person in the world.

• Personification: The world laughs at fools.

• Simile: Kind people are like gold—precious.

• Metaphor: Good advice is a precious gem.

Sound Devices

• Alliteration: mourning of mind; wretched robin

• Assonance: climb rimed cliffs; no sorrow

• Consonance: confess and redress; lonely and weary

• Onomatopoeia: eagle’s screech; ouch

Prose: ordinary speech or writing

Vernacular: the language of the common people

Verse: poetry

Scop: traveling storyteller/poet; Oral tradition

Anglo-Saxon Literature

1. Poetry

• Heroic poetry: EX Beowulf (epic poem)

• Lyric poetry: Express the thoughts and feelings, of a single speaker

EX Elegies: “The Wanderer” and

“ The Seafarer”

Elegy: a type of lyric poem in which the loss of something or someone is mourned

2. Riddles

Famous Anglo-Saxon manuscripts/books

Bede: A History of the English Church and People;

A collection of historical events and stories

written in Latin that tell of the warring

kings of England and the spread of Christianity

The Book of Exeter: A collection of manuscripts

written in Old English include “The Wanderer,”

“The Seafarer,” and “The Wife’s Lament.”

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: A collection of manuscripts/journals knit together by monks during the reign of King Alfred (AD 871-899) written in Old English

Anglo- Saxon Verse—Alliterative verse

• 4 strong beats/accented sounds per verse

• Caesura—a break in the middle of the verse to allow the poet/speaker to take a breath

• Alliteration

• Kenning: two word metaphor; EX ring giver for lord

Common Anglo-Saxon Themes

• Good vs. Evil / Heroic traditions

• Isolation/Exile

• Christianity/Joys of Heaven

• Hardships

Important Dates and People

• BC 800-600: Celts—Britons and Gaels

• BC 56-55: Julius Caesar—Roman invasion

• AD 70: First permanent Roman settlement in London

• AD 300: Romans introduce Christianity to

people in Britain

• AD 400: Romans leave

• AD 449: Germanic tribes invade—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes

• AD 871-899: King Alfred the Great—briefly unites Anglo-Saxon tribes; encourages learning and education

• AD 587: Saint Augustine converts King Ethelbert to Christianity

• AD 886: Danelaw--England is formally divided

• Prominent Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms—Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, and Kent

• AD 1066: Battle of Hastings—Anglo-Saxon King Harold II vs. William of Normandy; Harold loses, ending Anglo-Saxon Rule; the Norman Conquest begins

• AD 1066-1154: Norman Rule—suppression of Anglo-Saxon nobility; Normans control government; feudal system ; business conducted in French or Latin

Feudal system is system that involves an exchange of property for personal service:

King—parcels land to his supporters

Barons—pay fees and taxes and

supplied a specified number of

knights, professional soldiers to the

king

Knights—received smaller parcels of land called manors

Serfs—peasants worked the manors

• AD 1154 Norman rule ends when Henry Plantagenet , count of Anjou becomes king

• AD 1215: King John forced to sign Magna Carta—charter limiting King’s power, marking the beginning of constitutional powers

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