Samenvatting Rhyme and Reason - Engels

Engels literatuur Vwo 5 & 6:

,Inleiding:

, Old English (500 BC – 400 AD)
How did it all begin:

The people that were living need to entertain each other with each other but they
couldn’t write or read
For parents to learn the children lessons.

- Storytelling
- Oral tradition
- Heroic
Purpose is to teach lesson, to entertain, to learn lessons and to communicate with the world

- What is literature

1) There is a Message
2) It is Enclosed in a special form
3) It has Eternal value -> the message is still actual after it goes from father-> son ->
grandson etc.

- Means to help remember

 Alliteration (beginning rhyme) -> om dingen vroeger makkelijk te onthouden
 Rhythm, caesura (pause)
 Standard descriptions
 Kenning: a short metaphorical description of a thing or person used in place of the
thing or person’s name. King = “ring-river”

Old English Language
- Similarities between Frysk, Scandinavia & english
 50 BC – 400 AD romans
 Great migration
 400 AD Angles, Saxons, jutes and Frisian’s
 Lots of kingdoms
 Patriarchal society
 Lots of gods
 Germanic language, topics and setting
 Futhork script (zie foto ->)
 Topics of the stories in the Germanic world were! Bravery, loyalty & Harrism
 Setting were in Germany in the woods in the castles or at sea
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