1. Alliteration and Kenning
Beowulf
Alliteration and Kenning

2. Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem or the repetition of consonant sounds that are similar

3. Alliteration Examples Dusk demands daylight
Sister Susie sitting on a thistle
Miss Mary Mack
Dressy daffodils
“The paper holds their folded faces to the floor…”

4. Alliteration
“So Hrothgar’s men lived happy in his hall Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend, Grendel, who haunted the moors, the wild Marshes, and made his home in a hell Not hell but Earth. He was spawned in that slime…”

5. Kennings
A literary device in which a noun is renamed in a creative way using compound words, prepositional phrases or a union of two separate words to combine ideas
A special kind of metaphor

6. Kennings
Kenning Noun Arrow aimer Bow Antique printer Pen Tickle tool Feather Winters of grief An era of pain

7. Kennings Listening, the famous ring-giver sure,
“Hrothgar, gray-haired and brave, sat happily
Listening, the famous ring-giver sure,
At last, that Grendel could be killed; he believed
In Beowulf’s bold strength and the firmness of his spirit.”

8. Kennings Create your own kennings A teacher Firemen Television Police
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9. Alliteration and Kenning
Why do you think Anglo-Saxon poets utilized alliteration and kennings to tell their stories?

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