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18 Cards in this Set
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Elegy (Elegiac Poetry) |
A mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem, especially o funeral song or a lament for the dead |
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Myth |
A traditional or legendary story |
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Narrative Poem |
A poem that tells a story and has a plot |
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Archetype |
The original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied |
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Simile |
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared |
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Metaphor |
A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which hit is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
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Hyperbole |
Obvious and intentional exaggeration |
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Paradox |
A statement or proposition that's seems self-contradictory or absurd in reality express a possible truth |
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Epic Hero |
A brave and noble character in an epic poem |
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Epic |
Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition |
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Kenning |
A conventional poetic phrase used for is in addition to the usual name of a person or thing |
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Caesura |
A pause |
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Alliteration |
The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group |
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Comitatus |
Extreme loyalty |
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Wergild (man price) Reparations |
Money paid to the relatives of a murder in compensation for loss and to prevent a blood fued |
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Mythological Criticism |
An interdisciplinary approach that combines the sights of an thropology |
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Literary symbol |
Material object |
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Heroic Poetry |
Courage or ability |
