History
Literary Terms
Beowulf
Old English
Hodgepodge
100
Year of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
What is 449?
100
A mid-line pause.
What is a caesura?
100
The name of Beowulf's author.
What is the author's name is unknown?
100
"The Seafarer" is an example of this kind of poetry.
What is elegiac poetry?
100
Grendel is said to be descended from this Biblical figure.
Who is Cain?
200
Year of the Norman Invasion
What is 1066?
200
Although Anglo-Saxon poetry does not rhyme, this device, which is the repetition of initial consonant sounds, gives it unity.
What is alliteration?
200
The name of Hrothgar's hall.
What is Herot?
200
The Old English word for "fate."
What is wyrd?
200
Definition of "kenning."
What is a metaphorical phrase?
300
These invaders came from Norway and Denmark.
Who are the Vikings?
300
What are the two types of Anglo-Saxon poetry?
What are heroic and elegiac?
300
The two primary countries involved in the plot of Beowulf.
What are Geatland and Denmark?
300
The concept of "man-price."
What is wergild?
300
A theme from the poem Beowulf.
What is that everything of value--life, glory, values--pass away. Evidence includes the loss of Beowulf's youth and life, the shirkers who no longer appreciate the values that he stood for, and the imminent invasion of Geatland by the Swedes.
400
______________________ is a circle of huge stones constructed during prehistoric times.
What is Stonehenge?
400
What is a scop?
What is a poet or minstrel, one who recited poems?
400
He helps kill the dragon.
Who is Wiglaf?
400
Number of stressed beats in a typical line of OE poetry.
What are 4?
400
Origin of the names of England and of English.
What are Angles-Land and Angle-Ish?
500
The people living in Britannia prior to the arrival of the Angles and Saxons.
Who were the Celts?
500
Define "epic."
What is a long heroic poem.
500
Beowulf's father's name.
What is Edgetho?
500
The year in which Old English began to transition into Middle English.
What is 1066?
500
The only British king to ever earn the label "the great" ruled during this time; his name was............
What is Alfred the Great?
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