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| Data: | 16.01.2001 |
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BEOWULF CANTEBURY T. TRADITIONAL BALLAD
composed around 1387 last middle age
in the 7th century
anonymous Geoffrey Chaucer anonymous
oral written oral (traditionally)
--/-- /- /- /- /- /- 4 line stanzas abcb
heroic couplet 4stress and 3 stress lines
alliteration alliteration alliteration
metaphor/simile concrete nouns
Anglo-Saxon English Anglo-Saxon
formulae/kennings stock epithets (milkwhitehorse)
repetitive words
sound-devices
monosyllabic words
