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