Apassage of music is marked "ritardando." the following passage is marked "a tempo." the composer is instructing the players to a. gradually slow down until the end of the piece. b. slow down and then return to the original speed. c. speed up and and then come to an abrupt stop. d. speed up and then return to the original speed.

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