Characters
The hero who fights many evils, each worse than the last.
Beowulf
Another word for grieving.
Mourning
Beowulf vs. Grendel.
Good vs. evil.
"Then he said farewell to his followers..."
Alliteration
What Beowulf uses to kill Grendel.
His bare hands.
An evil monster that terrorizes the Danes for twelve years.
Grendel
Definition of livid.
Angry
This theme appears because the text was rewritten by a monk in the 1100s.
Christianity.
"...the living sorrow of Healfdane's son..."
Kenning
Grendel can't be hurt by...
mortal weapons.
King of the Danes and the person that Beowulf owes a blood debt to.
King Hrothgar
A familial bond, something shared between warriors.
Kinship
Wiglaf shows an example of this theme when he refuses to leave Beowulf during the dragon fight.
Loyalty.
"Knowing a man had come—and then nothing..."
Caesura
What Beowulf uses to kill Grendel's mother.
A giant's sword.
The only person that stays by Beowulf's side during the fight with the dragon.
Wiglaf
If something is hoary, it would be...
Gray and white.
Heroism.
"Conceived by a pair of those monsters born/Of Cain..."
Allusion
Beowulf's weapons fail him in his fight with the dragon because...
they melt and break.
Beowulf's father, the warrior that Hrothgar saved by paying reparations.
If something is done inadvertently, it is done...
by accident.
This theme could also be called "story vs. person telling the story."
The name of this punctuation: —
M-dash or em dash.
The dragon is said to use flames, but this is the other weapon he has that's mentioned.
Poison breath.