Repeated consonant sounds at the start of words. This is used to create a verbal rhythm.
What is alliteration?
100
The epic poem begins with Grendel attacking and killing Danes (translated, means "in the middle of things").
What is in medias res?
100
This person wrote Beowulf.
What is unknown?
100
Europe was dominated by tribes that came from this present-day country.
What is Germany?
100
This is a fabric of woven metal.
What is mail, or chain mail?
200
When a phrase or word is used as a substitute for a character's name. EX. "the brave prince of the Greats" or "mankind's enemy"
What is kenning?
200
A performer who would recite poems for hours, sometimes days.
What are scops?
200
Beowulf was written around this time period.
What is 700 AD, or 8th century?
200
The families that composed each tribe united under a single chieftain, called this.
What is a king?
200
The number of words believed to exist from Anglo-Saxon times: a) 30; b) 3,000; c) 30,000; d) 300,000.
What is c) 30,000
300
Pauses in the middle of a line that create dramatic/epic mood.
What is a caesura?
300
This poetry tells the achievements of warriors and great battles.
What is heroic poetry?
300
Beowulf is a representation of history of early life in England for these three groups (name two).
What are the Anglos, Saxons and Jutes?
300
This society valued warfare and the worship of many kings.
What is paganism?
300
This group introduced Christianity, which made its way to England in the fifth century.
Who are the Romans?
400
This is an example of which literary term? "Then he saw the mighty water witch, and swung his sword; His ring-marked blade, straight at her head"
What is caesura?
400
This poetry mourns the death of loved ones and happy times of the past.
What is elegiac poetry?
400
Beowulf is a combination of these two religious followings.
What is Christianity and Paganism?
400
This group favored the worshiping of one god.
What is Christianity?
400
Anglo-Saxons devised an alphabet called this.
What is runes?
500
This is an example of which literary term? "Slashing and stabbing with the sharpest of points, the soldiers raised their shields"
What is alliteration?
500
This is a long narrative poem on a great and serious subject, focused on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, nation, or the human race
What is an epic poem?
500
Beowulf fought Grendel in this present-day location.