Washington, D.C. â Adding to the House Judiciary Committeeâs work to protect children from exploitation and abuse, the Committee today approved two additional bills to strengthen penalties forâ¦. March 29, 2017.
The correct answer is 'bob and wheel'. Bob is a very short line, followed by a wheel, longer lines with internal rhymes. Bob and wheel is characteristic of Medieval literature, primarily The Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Comments.
The one kenning in the passage is âwhale-road.â While some of these compounds also function as formulas (see Quick Reference Sheet), they also have specific poetic functions. Ask your students to discuss the poetic function of compounding and kennings in the passage. Example: The Old English for Spear-Danes is Gar-Dena. If you look at the Old English Beowulf Passage Handout, you will see that gar (spear) alliterates and that the alliterative meter needs a G-word here.