| Hrothgar | Is the name of the King of the Danes. |
| Hrunting | Is the name is beowulfs sword. |
| Beowulf | Is the young prince of the Geats who sail to the Danish Shore. |
| Scop | Were centuries of poet singers who recited the adventures of Beowulf |
| Herot | Is the name of the mead hall where the men would congregate and make merry. |
| Wiglaf | Is the name of the warrior who stayed to fight with Beowulf at the end. |
| Grendel | Is the name of the powerful monster that would invade the mead hall and bring death and destruction. |
| Mead | Is the name of the alcoholic beverage served at the hall. |
| Grendels mother | Kills hrothgars closest friend in an attempt to seek revenge. |
| Dragon | Beowulf dies fighting the? |
| Edgetho | Is the name of beowulfs father. |
| Sleep far from the hall | What do the Danes do to avoid Grendel? |
| He is held fast in beowulfs grasp | Grendel finally shows fear when? |
| The fierceness and the power of the attack | What do the alliteration and kenning in lines 474-478 of this old English poem help convey? |
| Stands with Beowulf to fight the dragon | Beowulf asks Wiglaf to be the next leader because Wiglaf? |
| A good leader is brave and fearless | What is the universal theme in the epic Beowulf? |
| Grendel lives in a place that is swampy dark lonely and gloomy. All of this reflects his evil nature. | How does Grendel’s home reflect his evil nature? |
| Beowulf is 70 years old | Approximately how old is Beowulf when he fights his last battle? |
| Both the Danes and the Geats are sitting and staring into the monsters lake. | As Beowulf fights grendels mother where are his companions and what are they thinking? |
| Lair | A wild animals den |
| Gorge | Eat greedily |
| Talon | A claw |
| Infamous | Having a bad reputation |
| Loathsome | Disgusting |
| Affliction | Force that causes suffering |
| Purge | Get rid of something undesirable |
| Livid | Dis colored from being bruised |
| Epic | A long narrative poem on a serious subject presented in an elevated or formal style |
| Universal theme | Timeless values that apply to any time period |
| Stock epithets | Adjectives that point out special traits of particular persons or things |
| Kennings | Poetic synonyms found in Germanic poems that are used as nouns |
| Caesura | A pause or break in a line of poetry |
| Diction | Writers or speakers choice of words |
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| Dialogue | A conversation between two or more characters in either fiction or nonfiction |
| Setting | Refers to the time and place in which the action occurs |
| Plot | The sequence of actions and events in a literary work |
| Theme | Underlying message that a writer wants the reader to understand |
Beowulf
February 23, 2020