Select the correct answer.
What led to the birth of polyphonic music?
A.
an increase in the size of church choirs
B.
a need for dance music in the Middle Ages
C. the dominance of the church over the minds of people
D.
an effort to revolutionize the plainchant

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