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ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - FIXED STRESS PATTERN
        
        FIGURES OF SPEECH SUCH AS ALLITERATION AND KENNING
        
        EPIC POEM: BEOWULF
        
        -BRAVERY AND ALTRUISM -ADVENTUROUS TONE - SUPERNATURAL CREATURES
        
        EPIC POEM: A LONG NARRATIVE POETICAL COMPOSITION
        
        alliteration: repetition of the same initial consonant in the same line. ex: "fair is foul and foul is fair"
        
        kenning: combination of two words that is used in place of a noun. Ex: the sea in Beowulf is called "the whale-road"
  - - - MEDITATIVE TONE
        
        THEMES: LOSS AND GRIEF
        
        ELEGY: THE SEAFARER
        
        DESCRIPTION OF THE HARD CONDITIONS OF AN ANGLO-SAXON EXPLORER OF THE SEA