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标准文档 实用文案 PAGE 英国文学史资料British Writers and Works Anglo-Saxon period Beowulf贝奥武夫:thenational epic of the Anglo-Saxons Epic: 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. (主题严肃，语言庄重) e.g. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey Artistic features: Using alliteration(押头韵)（该文最大修辞特点，每行第一个词辅音韵） Definition of alliteration: a rhetorical device, meaning some words in a sentence begin with the same consonant sound（辅音） Using metaphor（暗喻，隐喻） and understatement Definition of understatement: expressing something in a contro