Beowulf Characters
Good man of the Geats
Beowulf
How Beowulf killed Grendel
Ripped off his arm
Fancy word for word choice
SPACE stands for...
Speaker, purpose, audience, context, exigence
What question should you always ask during rhetorical analysis?
WHY/FOR/ON?
King of the Danes
Hrothgar
Grendel's Mother's motive for killing Aeschere
Wanted revenge; killed the man closest to Hrothgar
Definition of tone
The writer's attitude toward the subject
What is the exigence of the speech? (Don't think too hard...)
"That seems the very opposite of Percy Bysshe Shelley's definition of the poet."
What type of appeal is this reference to Shelley?
Ethos/credibility
Unferth
Deus ex machina
The three types of appeals
Ethos, pathos, and logos
Characterize the speaker (name and 2+ attributes)
Rita Dove, US poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, professor of English, poet
What three things does Dove wish for the graduates?
Descendants of Cain (2 answers for points)
Grendel and Grendel's Mother
Beowulf's purpose in going to help the Danes
Characterize Dove's audience (2+ attributes)
Graduates, living in Virginia, Millennials, 2016
"When you entered this university, you wanted to eat the world and all everyone else wanted you to do was to get good grades."
What rhetorical tool is at use here and for what purpose?
Juxtaposition; comparing what young people want to what life-hardened adults expect
Infamous former Danish king
Heremond
The name of the sword Unferth gives to Beowulf
Hrunting
Anaphora and symploce are both examples of ___________ in syntax.
What is the purpose of the speech?
Encourage graduates to keep their vitality upon entering the "real world"
"You cannot wait for revelation to come down upon you in a clouds of gossamer and angelic sighs; more often than not you have to seek it out."
Identify a choice Dove makes in this excerpt, then analyze why she made this choice for this audience on this occasion.
100 points for choice, 100 points for why, 100 points for for, 100 points for on, 100 points for sophistication