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BRIT LIT
Brit Lit Angelo Saxon era and Beowulf test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who were Celtic people and where did they live | Britons and gaels British isles |
| celts | farms and hunters organized into clans savage but considered advanced for their time |
| what did Romans introduce | law language and infrastructure established cities like London and Colchester |
| what stories did AS like | dragons monsters ancient heros kings |
| how did the story of Beowulf get passed down | oral tradition in song form |
| wyrd | fate |
| st Bede the venerable | wrote in latin wrote the histories of the english people brought about practice of dating from birth of Christ |
| allegory | a work in which each element symbolises or represents something else |
| aim | a writer's purpose or goal |
| stress or accent | the level of emphasis given to a syllable |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| elegiac lyric | a kind of lyrics that expresses grief over death or loss ' a survivors lament' |
| aphorism | a short saying or pointed statement 'blood is thicker than water' |
| heroic epic | an epic that has a main purpose of telling the life story of a grand hero |
| epic | a long story often told in verses involving heroes and gods |
| when did the Angelo saxon period end | 1066 with the arrival of william the conqueror (battle of hastings) |
| who is the author of beowulf | it is unknown |
| how was beowulf told | with oral tradition usually by song and verse |
| whenw as beowulf supposedly created | about 900 AD |
| what does beowulf focus on | angelo saxon tales of heroism and kingship |
| theme of beowulf | life is hard, fate is fickle |
| king edwin | escaped enemies with help from God was told to embrace his faith said he could confer with his principal friends to see if he should convert the country |
| paulinus | a missionary sent to northumbria by pope gregory I told king edwin he was saved by God and told him to spread the word |
| coifi | a priest that king edwin talked to about God thought that believing in God had no virtue |
| caedmon | dreamt about being told to sing about God and he did he went out and wrote poetry about it sang for other people the story of creation |
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