Epigraph I think I just looked it up
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Used primarily in Anglo-Saxon poetry, the epic poem Beowulf is full of kennings. For example, the term whale-road is used for the sea and "shepherd of evil" is used for Grendel. Other well known kennings include "battle sweat" for blood; "raven harvest" for corpse; and "sleep of the sword" for death.
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Henry James was the first writer to mention the difference in a greater extent. According to his writings, American style writing is rich with moral innosence, spontaneity, sincerity, honesty, naturality respectively versus European moral experience, rituality, dishonesty and artificiality. The qualities cannot be seen exactly in every European or American novel, however the qualities boil down to the final virtue in the form of honesty vs evil.