SerranoNotes+-+Beowulf-++IDs+and+Terms


 * __Scop:__** an Old English poet or storyteller


 * __Kinship__****:** a social relationship


 * __Thane__****:** a warrior


 * __Heroic__** a code that governed the Anglo-Saxon culture
 * __code__****:**


 * __Wergild__****:** man-price


 * __wyrd__**: fate (although their conception of it is different than ours)


 * __Kenning__****:** an Old English poetic device in which a compound poetic phrase is substituted for the usual name of a person or thing. / whale-road (line 10), ring-giver (line 36)


 * __Litotes__****:** an ironic understatement, also a common feature of Old English poetry. “no less bountifully” (line 43)


 * __Alliteration__**: the occurrence in a phrase or line of poetry of two or more words having the same initial sound.


 * __Caesura__****:** a pause in a line of poetry.


 * __Metonymy__****:** a figure of speech in which one thing is used to designate something with which it is commonly associated. "bottle" for "liquor."

"keel" for "ship."
 * __Synecdoche__**: a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to designate a whole