Anglo-Saxon Literary Devices

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Across
  1. 2. A long narrative poem in a dignified style about the deeds of a traditional or historical hero or heroes.
  2. 3. The time, place, and culture in which the action of a narrative takes place.
  3. 5. An incident that forms part of a story and is significantly related to it.
  4. 7. bonehouse = body; sea wood = ship
  5. 8. fate
  6. 10. A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art.
  7. 12. A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.
  8. 14. narrator has a full knowledge of the story's events and of the motives and unspoken thoughts of the various characters.
  9. 16. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.
  10. 17. a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine:
  11. 18. An abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject-matter.
  12. 21. The climate of feeling in a literary work.
Down
  1. 1. A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form
  2. 4. improbable means by which an author provides a too ­easy resolution for a story
  3. 6. A poem of serious reflection.
  4. 9. A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work; lyric poem of lament sung over the dead
  5. 11. Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory.
  6. 13. repetitions of consonant sounds at the beginning of words to create a rhythm
  7. 15. Anything that stands for or represents something else beyond itself.
  8. 19. nickname
  9. 20. A poetic device used when a line of poetry ends with a word that forces the reader to the next line.