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| miracle tale | stories about saints' lives |
| caesura | a pause that occurs within a line of poetry |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of closely-related words |
| allegory | a work in which each element symbolizes, or represents, something else |
| symbol | a thing that represents both itself and takes on an additional meaning as well |
| scop/gleeman | a singer of tales |
| elegy | a kind of lyric that expresses grief over the loss of something |
| lyric | a short, highly musical poem that tells the emotions of a speaker |
| elegiac lyric | a poem that expresses a speaker's feelings of loss |
| speaker | the character who speaks in, or narrates, a poem---the voice assumed by the writer |
| foil | a character whose attributes, or characteristics, contrast with and therefore throw into relief the attributes of another character |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that makes an implied comparison between 2 unlike things |
| imagery | the use of words or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses or emotions |
| riddle | a word game in which something is described in an unusual way and the reader or listener must figure out what that something is. |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an idea, animal, or thing is described as if it were a human being |
| epic | a long story, often tole in verse, involving heroes and gods---grand in length and scope, it provides a portrait of an entire culture and its legends, beliefs, values, etc. |
| heroic epic | an epic that has as its main purpose of telling of the life story of a great hero |
| fit/canto | a section of a long poem |
| kenning | an imaginative compound used in place of an ordinary noun |
| variation | a poetic technique in which a person, group, etc. is talked about repeatedly by using different words or phrases |
