ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -An example in Beowulf occurs when the author describes the sea as a whale-road. A third literary device, alliteration, refers to the repetition of the beginning sound of a word. An example of modern-day alliteration is “rock and roll".

Detailed explanation-2: -The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse. In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.

Detailed explanation-3: -Beowulf is an epic poem composed in Old English consisting of 3, 182 lines. It is written in the alliterative verse style, which is common for Old English poetry as well as works written in languages such as Old High German, Old Saxon, and Old Norse.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alliteration is to be described as a repetition of similar consonant sounds. Another example of alliteration in “Beowulf” would be on lines 446-447, “He will carry me away as he goes to ground, gorged and bloodied” (446-447).