LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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A traditional form with repeated consonant sounds
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An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic pentameter with traditional rhymes
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A popular form in the 9th and 10th centuries
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A form brought to England in the years during the Norman invasion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alliteration: repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words. Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called initial alliteration. Repeated consonant sounds in the middle or at the ends of words is called internal alliteration. Repetition of vowel sounds is called assonance.
Detailed explanation-2: -alliterative verse, early verse of the Germanic languages in which alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables, is a basic structural principle rather than an occasional embellishment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Both terms are associated with repetition-assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds and consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds-but these terms (as they are typically used) differ in 3 important ways from the patterning of rhyme.
Detailed explanation-4: -Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.