英语词汇“kenning”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A kenning, in literature, is a word or phrase that is a metaphor for something simpler. Calling a ship a "sea-steed," for example, is a kenning.

You're most likely to hear the term kenning in a literature class, especially if you happen to be studying Old Norse or Old English poetry. It's part of both literary traditions to use figurative language — often in the form of a compound word or a phrase — to represent a simple word. In Old Norse, a typical kenning is "sun of the houses" for "fire." The root is the Old Norse kenna, "know, recognize, or perceive."

WORD FAMILY

kenning: kennings

USAGE EXAMPLES

Fairbrass said that the Kenning statement “hasn’t been withdrawn so much as updated” but that the company stands “by the content in the earlier statement.”

Washington Post(Jun 13, 2016)

David Kenning, a British counter-radicalization expert, made this provocative argument in a telephone interview this week and in recent research for various Western governments.

Washington Post(Jun 02, 2016)

She sang in improvised kennings, recited emphatic lyrics in English and Japanese, and moved between extremes of sound.

New York Times(Oct 05, 2015)

n conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry

Hyper

figure, figure of speech, image, trope

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

单词	kenning
释义	kenning (once / 75283 pages) n A kenning, in literature, is a word or phrase that is a metaphor for something simpler. Calling a ship a "sea-steed," for example, is a kenning. You're most likely to hear the term kenning in a literature class, especially if you happen to be studying Old Norse or Old English poetry. It's part of both literary traditions to use figurative language — often in the form of a compound word or a phrase — to represent a simple word. In Old Norse, a typical kenning is "sun of the houses" for "fire." The root is the Old Norse kenna, "know, recognize, or perceive." WORD FAMILY kenning: kennings USAGE EXAMPLES Fairbrass said that the Kenning statement “hasn’t been withdrawn so much as updated” but that the company stands “by the content in the earlier statement.” Washington Post(Jun 13, 2016) David Kenning, a British counter-radicalization expert, made this provocative argument in a telephone interview this week and in recent research for various Western governments. Washington Post(Jun 02, 2016) She sang in improvised kennings, recited emphatic lyrics in English and Japanese, and moved between extremes of sound. New York Times(Oct 05, 2015) n conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry Hyper figure, figure of speech, image, trope language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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