| A | B |
|---|
| Caesura | Break in middle of poetry |
| Assonance | Repetitive Vowel Sounds |
| Allusion | Reference to another literary work |
| Alliteration | Like beginning Sounds |
| Vernacular | Everyday language |
| Scop | Traveling singer/poet/entertainer. memorized information |
| Oral Tradition | Passed down by word of mouth |
| Legendary Hero | Larger than life hero |
| Heroic Poetry | Warriors Achievements |
| Kenning | 2 word poetic renamings of people, places, things |
| Fate | idea that we are not in control of own life |
| Exile | Forced absence from home land |
| Epic | Long narrative poem - hero |
| Elegiac Poetry | Mourns death |
