The is an orchestral piece that is played at the beginning of a larger work such as an opera, oratorio, or suite. it serves to set the mood of the larger work and to alert the audience that the piece is about to begin.

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