1. 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

2. 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!'

3. 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)