Bede
Caedmon of Whitby
The Seafarer
Literary Devices
Beowulf
100
Bede was a monk & scholar.
What is Bede's occupations.
100
Caedmon's home was in this northern kingdom of England.
What is the kingdom of Northumbria?
100
Based on the 1st line "This tale is true, and mine." suggests this about the experience to the speaker.
What is the experience was extremely important & life changing to the speaker?
100
"My feet were cast/In icy bands, bound with frost,..." is an example of imagery involving these two senses.
What is sensory details of sight and touch?
100
He is the weary king of the Spear-Danes who built the great mead hall.
Who is Hrothgar?
200
The title added to Bede's name for his reputation of wisdom, humility, and scholarship.
What is the meaning of Venerable in assoiciation with Bede's name?
200
Caedmon left the feast, and hide in the stables for this reason.
What is his embarassment of his inability to compose verse?
200
The season the Seafarer wants to go out to sea is this.
What is the sailor's emotions in the Spring?
200
"...I put myself back on the paths of the sea.." is this kind of comparative literary device referring to the sea routes.
What is metaphor?
200
He is the son of Hygelic and epic hero of the piece.
Who is Beowulf?
300
Bede was known to be the first English historian.
What is the Venerable known as to the English people?
300
This is Caedmon's dream he had that night in the barn.
What is a man called his name, and requested him to sing a song?
300
The season the Seafarer wants to be ashore is this.
What is winter?
300
"The world's honor ages and shrinks,/ Bent like the men who mold it..." is an example of this literary device.
What is personification?
300
Grendel is referred to as one of his descendents.
Who is Cain?
400
"The History of the English Church and People".
What is the most famous written work of Venerable Bede?
400
Caedmon composed and sand his first song about this.
What is Creation?
400
This is the poet's ideas about the physical life & eternal life in lines 64-66.
What is physical life is brief, and only the love of God brings eternal life?
400
This literary device is the main point of the poem and this is its meaning.
What is the theme and it is Praise God and his power?
400
This is the type of conflict involving Beowulf vs. Grendel.
What is man vs. supernatural?
500
Bede's "History" was originally written in Latin this English King had it translated.
Who is King Alfred the Great?
500
Caedmon could not compose these types of songs.
What frivolous or profane songs?
500
This is the interpretation of "home" and "seafaring" in the later part of the poem.
What is heaven is his "home" and striving to live godly in the Lord's eyes is "seafaring"?
500
This term "giver of gold" is a common Old English elaborate, poetic phrase describing a person, thing or events in a metaphorical and indirect way.
What is a kenning?
500
This is one of the three Anglo-Saxon ideals of conduct, or beliefs of how he should govern his life.
What are the ideals of 1) allegiance to the lord & king, 2) love of glory as a motive for every noble's life, and 3) the belief in the inevitability of Fate?
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