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