LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Alliteration
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Epithet
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Detailed explanation-1: -Beowulf’s final words (2794 ff.) are a mixture of prayer, instruction, and farewell. Thanking God, he tells Wiglaf that he wants his ashes buried in a mound on Whale’s Cliff (Hrones-naesse) near the sea where passing sailors might look upon it and call it “Beowulf’s Barrow” (Biowulfes biorh).
Detailed explanation-2: -Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature – of which the best-known example is the epic poem Beowulf – flourished from the sixth century CE until the Norman Conquest.
Detailed explanation-3: -“to feast his fill of the flesh of men” (the alliterative use of the letter ‘f’) “gulped the blood and gobbled the flesh” (the alliterative use of the letter ‘g’) “for fear of a feud were forced to disown him” “Bound to the bank then the broad-bosomed vessel” More items