Place yourself in the role of Ludwig Van Beethoven after he recently lost his hearing. Create a post telling your friends, family, and colleagues about the experience. Detail your feelings as well as the choices and music you made after. Then, assuming the role of a friend, family member or colleague, comment on the post of a classmate by stating your reaction to the news contained in the post.

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