You have read an excerpt from A Little Princess. Consider how Sara is feeling in this passage. How would she describe the events from her perspective? Write a journal entry as Sara that describes her response to the scene you just read. Use at least two details from the text to add liveliness and interest to your response.

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beowulf is filled with alliterations, caesuras, and kennings intended both to give the epic a musical, rhythmic quality and to assist the bard performing the epic in remembering the lines. just as the lyrics to our favorite songs are easier to remember than a context-free list of names or census data, poetic devices like those listed above stick in the bard's mind.

it is not known if beowulf was chanted, sung, or recited more like a modern day poem, but the poetic devices evident in the epic almost certainly had their origin in memorization and oral recitation.