WHO SAID IT?
Dear Mother, alack the day!
I am as good as dead if I can't say
What thing it is that women most desire:
If you could tell me I would pay your hire.
Who is The Knight?
Beowulf was written between these years.
When is 700-750 CE?
The reason Hector and Achilles were fighting.
What is Hector killed Patroclus?
The two characters whose tales we read.
Who is The Pardoner and the Wife of Bath?
endless as in a dream... when a man can't catch another fleeing on ahead and he can never escape nor his rival overtake him -- so the one could never run the other down in his speed nor the other spring away.
What is an epic (homeric) simile?
Men at arms, remain here on the barrow,
Safe in your armor, to see which one of us
is better in the end at bearing wounds
in a deadly fray. This fight in not yours,
nor is it up to any man except me
to measure his strength against the monster
or prove his worth.
Who is Beowulf?
The weapon with which Beowulf defeated Grendel's mother.
What is the Giant's Sword?
The brother that Hector thought was fighting by his side.
Who is Deiphobus?
The number of pilgrims who traveled to Canterbury.
What is twenty-nine?
An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
What is an epithet?
You missed, look - the great Godlike -------! So you knew nothing at all from ---- about my death - and yet how sure you were! All bluff, cunning with words, that's all you are - trying to make me fear you, lose my nerve, forget my fighting strength.
Who is Hector?
The name of the Anglo-Saxon who was responsible for entertaining the community with stories.
What is the Scop?
The goddess who helped Achilles defeat Hector.
Who is Athena?
The author of the Canterbury Tales.
Who is Chaucer?
By morning, the monster's mind was hot
With the thought of food and the feasting his belly
Would soon know.
What is personification?
Whoever loves to work for virtuous ends,
Public and private, and who most intends
To do what deeds of gentleness he can,
Take him to be the greatest gentleman.
Who is The Old Lady?
The place in which King Hrothgar lived.
What is Herot?
Achilles did this with Hector's body.
What is drag it behind a chariot?
The character whom the three men meet at the end of the Pardoner's Tale.
Who is Death?
A worthy woman from beside Bath city
Was with us, somewhat deaf, which was a pity
In making cloth she showed so great a bent
She bettered those of Ypres and Ghent.
What is characterization?
Some nine and twenty in a company
Of sundry folk happening then to fall
In fellowship, and they were pilgrims all
That towards -------- meant to ride.
Who is The Narrator?
The name of King Beowulf's people.
Who are the Geats?
The side of the fight that Zeus was on.
What is Zeus was neutral?
The name of the Mythical King whose ears turn into donkey ears.
Who is Midas?
In new terror, cowering in their beds as the terrible
Screams of the Almighty's enemy sang
In the darkness...
What is an allusion?