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Flashcards by Melissa Tecum Vicente, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Melissa Tecum Vicente
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| Question | Answer |
| Time frame of Anglo-Saxon Period? | 410-1066 A.D |
| Who was England invaded by? | Germanic Tribes: Angles, Saxons, Jutes |
| What did this invasion cause? | Destruction of Roman civilization and creation of Anglo-Saxon society |
| Impact of Germanic tribes? | - passionate loyalty to the king - strict tribal code of conduct - love of action and adventure |
| Outlook on life? | - life was a struggle to be endured? |
| Outlook on evil | Evil and death were inseparable |
| Outlook on fame? | Fame was the only true immortality * glory=fame=immortality * |
| Anglo-Saxon Religion began with | Pagan religion |
| Religion was? | The most vital element of their society |
| Religion created? | An informal system of god-heroes, few priests, and formal rituals |
| Pagan believed in | the goddess Wryd or Fate |
| When was Christianity adopted? | A.D 664 - became a province of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Monasteries became the? | centers of intellectual, literary, artistic and social activity. Also hand copied books brought from the continent |
| Monks cared for? | the poor, sick, and orphaned |
| The first book in this society? | The Ecclesiastical History of the English people |
| Who wrote this first book in the society? | Venerable Bede |
| Danes and Vikings did what? | Invaded and destroyed monasteries and manuscripts of many pieces of literature |
| Alfred the Great did what? | Led a successful campaign against these tribes and restored schools, etc. Credited with changing the course of British Literature |
| Anglo Saxon literature period? | 975-1050 A.D - only 30,000 lines of Anglo-sax lit. still exist today |
| Stanza? | set formula of composition that made them easy to recognize and memorize |
| Meter | Formal rigid pattern of word stresses tgar give lyrics a sing-song effect |
| Caesura | Mid-line pause occurs in many lines |
| Alliteration | Repetition of sounds among words in each line |
| Heroic Poetry | recounts achievements of warriors in great battles |
| Elegiac poetry | sorrowful lament that mourns the death of loved ones |
| Epic Poetry | story that has a hero, good and evil, supernatural elements |
| 5 Characteristics of A.S Poetry | - love of freedom - responsiveness to nature - strong religious convictions especially to Wyrd - reverence to womanhood devotion to glory - motive of warriors life |
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