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LIt test 1
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30
Literature
11th Grade
09/06/2011

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Alliteration:
Definition
Used as a memory tool to link important words and ideas within lines
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Bretwalda
Definition
King
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Caesura
Definition
Pause in poetry
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Druid
Definition
Priests of the celts
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Eledgy
Definition
A poem of reflection, typically a lament for dead, longing or sorrow
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Epic
Definition

Folk Mock Literary

 A long poem, typically derived from oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.

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Epithet
Definition

a short poetic nickname

Used in place of a normal name

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Kennings
Definition
Metaphore used to describe objects or activities Swan Road- body of water
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Mead Hall
Definition
Central hall of village
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Rune
Definition
anglo-saxon writing
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Scop
Definition
poet who listens to battle stories
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Thane
Definition
Warrior 
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449, AD
Definition
Anglo-saxon period
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1066
Definition
Alfred the great, successful apponent to the vikings 
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elts
Definition
Tribal people who built stonehedges 
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Beowulf
Definition
warrior who killed Grendel
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Grendel
Definition
Monster who was killed by Beowulf
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Jutes
Definition
Scandonavian tribe
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Anglos
Definition
Scandinavian tribe
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Saxons
Definition
Scandinavian tribe
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Harold Godwinson
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Captured says when Edward Dies William should be King
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William of NOrmandy
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wipes out harild
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St. Augustine
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Bishop of cantabery
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Ethelbert
Definition
King in anglo saxon society, converted by Augustine
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Types of Epics
Definition
Folk, Art, Mock
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Folk 
Definition

A story that evoves from the people of the civilization and their lives

 

Beowulf, The Lliad, The Odessy

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Art
Definition

Ideas are created based on the ideas of the civilizartion or cultural events

 

Paradise Lost

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Mock Epic
Definition

Satire, Heroic-comical poem, blows everything out of proportion and uses the behavior of the time

 

Lock of Rage

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