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Literary Terms from Beowulf
Title: Literary Terms from Beowulf
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1430 | Pages: 6.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Literary Terms from Beowulf
Kenning
A Kenning is a metaphorical phrase or compound word used to name a person, place, thing, or event indirectly.
Examples:
“Twelve winters of grief for Hrothgar, king
Of the Danes, sorrow heaped at his door
By hell-forged hands.”
( Beowulf, 147-149)
The word in bold red print is an example of a kenning. The word hell-forged is a compound word that is describing what type of hands have brought sorrow to Hrothgar.
Hrothgar’s gold-ringed queen, …showed first 75 words of 1430 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1430 total…moors, the wild
Marshes, and made his home in a hell
Not hell but earth. He was spawned in that slime,
Conceived by a pair of those monsters born
Of Cain, murderous creatures banished
By God, punished forever for the crime
Of Abel’s death.” (Beowulf, 102-108)
This is another example of a metaphor in that it compares Grendel to Cain from the Bible. That they are both murderous creatures and are both banished by people.
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