英国文学史资料
<Beowulf>贝奥武夫:the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons
Epic:
long narrative poems that record the adventures or heroic deeds of a hero enacted in vast landscapes. The style of epic is grand and elevated.
e.g. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
Artistic features
:Using alliteration
Definition of alliteration: a rhetorical device, meaning some words in a sentence begin with the same consonant sound（头韵）
Some examples on P5
Using metaphor and understatement
Definition of understatement: expressing somet ...