Anglo-Saxon Lyric Poetry Literary Term Glossary: Using your textbook, look up the following words and create your own Term Chart. Term Definition Example Caesura Kenning Assonance Elegy Allusion Atmosphere Anthesis Anaphora

Anglo-Saxon Lyric Poetry Literary Term Glossary: Definition Example Caesura Rhythmic breaks in the middle of the lines, where the reciter would pause for a breath. Oft to the wanderer, weary of exile, Kenning Two-word poetic renaming of people, places, and things. Whales’ home for the sea. Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds in unrhymed, stressed syllables. Batter these ramparts Elegy A lyric poem mourning the loss of someone or something. The Seafarer: Burton Raffel The Wanderer: Charles Kennedy The Wife’s Lament: Ann Stanford Allusion An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication The poem ‘Out, Out--,’ by Robert Frost is an allusion to Shakespeare; after Lady Macbeth dies, Macbeth speaks of life's shortness, 'Out, out, brief candle!'

Anglo-Saxon Lyric Poetry Literary Term Glossary: Definition Example Atmosphere (Mood) The emotional feelings inspired by a work. The term is borrowed from meteorology to describe the dominant mood of a selection as it is created by diction, dialogue, setting, and description The first act of Macbeth creates a dark and dismal mood with the three witches, forming the atmosphere of the play. What the witches state is the foreshadowing of the later evil in the play Antithesis Using opposite phrases in close conjunction or a contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. "Her character is white as sunlight, black as midnight." Anaphora The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines. “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island . . . “ (Churchill)