This is a lithograph by the Scottish artist David Roberts. a. identify the composition: horizontal, diagonal, etc?
b. Where are the implied lines?
c. Where are the directional lines? (this is the direction the artists moves your eye through the composition. Where do you start, where are you led, and how, and where do you finish.)

Match the description to the word. 1. a long narrative poem-national in scope, heroic in character and action alliteration 2. poet epic 3. pertaining to a formal poem; a meditation upon a serious subject comitatus 4. the repetition of the initial sounds in two or more words of a line of poetry kennings 5. double comparisons or metaphors half-line 6. a relationship between a leader and his retainers elegiac 7. fate hlaford 8. lord scop 9. the basic unit of meter in anglo-saxon poetry wyrd