Letteratura Inglese del terzo anno di scuola superiore, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Letteratura Inglese del terzo anno di scuola superiore e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses works from the second half of the 5th century to the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066. It includes differets genres, such as epic poetry, elegies, chronicles, riddles, translations of the Bibble from Latin, stories about the lives of saints and sermons. Anglo-Saxon poetry was anonymous and oral. The poet, called a 'scop', entertained the noblemen in the halls of kings, often accompained by a harp. Anglo-Saxon poetry was formed in a long collective process of memorisation. The most important formal aspects of Anglo-Saxon poetry were stress and alliteration, that is, the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in consecutive words of words which are close together. Another important feature of this poetry was the kenning, a formulaic metaphorical phrase that is used in place of a name or nuon.