精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上 英语文学史分时期总结作家作品贝奥武夫: the national epic of the Anglo-SaxonsEpic史诗: 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. Homers Iliad and OdysseyArtistic features: 1. Using alliteration头韵 Definition of alliteration: （定义）a rhetorical device, meaning some words in a sentence begin with the same consonant sound 2. Using metaphor 暗喻and understatement明抑暗
