Characters
The pride of the southern Swedes. The hero of the Danes. The Protagonist. The upright and honorable, who embodies everything that Grendal is not.
Who is Beowulf?
Tis this thing that talks to and tickles the teacher's ear. You will ponder and prepare with the help of your peers.
What is alliteration?
The Anglo-Saxon concept of fate that ruled their lives.
What is wyrd?
Four dilly-dandies (teats on the udder)
Four stick standies (legs)
Two crookers (horns)
Two lookers (eyes)
And a wig wag (tail)
This riddle is about...
What is a cow?
Who is a monk?
There, lying upon that which belongs to all heroes, with bowels of fury and fire waiting to be unleashed if one piece goes missing.
Who was the dragon?
It is this device you might use to call a person on a bicycle a pedal-pusher. Some that ride in gas-guzzling man wagons may also call them a tree-hugger.
What is a kenning?
The concept through which the Anglo-Saxons believed one could achieve immortality since they did not believe in an afterlife.
What is lof?
When I am alive I do not speak.
Anyone who wants to takes me captive and cuts off my head.
They bite my bare body
I do no harm to anyone unless they cut me first.
Then I soon make them cry.
What am I?
What is an onion?
A long narrative poem
What is an epic?
A personification of Anglo-Saxon values, a loyal friend and kinsman, the future of the Geats who brings any hope and refuses despair or to leave the side of his King.
Both poetic and phonetic, Beowulf (the story) and Beowulf (the character) are this.
What is EPIC?
The Anglo-Saxon word meaning companionship--loyalty and love to your kinsmen, friends, and king.
What is comitatus?
A wonderful warrior exists on earth.
Two dumb creatures make him grow bright between them.
Enemies use him against one another.
His strength is fierce but a woman can tame him.
He will meekly serve both men and women
If they know the trick of looking after him
And feeding him properly.
He makes people happy.
He makes their lives better.
But if they let him grow proud
This ungrateful friend soon turns against them.
This riddle is about?
What is fire?
The two purposes for which Beowulf was written.
What is to entertain and spread Christianity?
In the darkest corner of the mind, with hands clasped tightly over the ears, you will find this drooling creature.
Who is Grendal?
Controlling the atmosphere and scene using this device by giving your words specific connotation like this: The feelings of joy sprang from the refreshing water and flooded his heart as the tables of fortunes turned in Beowulf's favor.
What is mood?
Oh, where did men find themselves good cheer and sing with loud voices? A place of protection where plans of the people blossomed. The beating heart of the realm.
What is the mead hall?
My home is not quiet but I am not loud.
The lord has meant us to journey together.
I am faster than he and sometimes stronger,
But he keeps on going for longer.
Sometimes I rest but he runs on.
For as long as I am alive I live in him.
If we part from one another
It is I who will die.
This is about which creature and his home...
What is a fish in a river?
Beowulf was written in this language, which has been translated to our modern English.
What is Old English?
Spirit of vengeance, hidden and feeding off the depths, hero or villain, who knows?
Who is Grendal's Mother?
Make sure that you know, take a long second to think, just how powerful a pause in your writing can be. Use this powerful device to let words marinate in the mind of your audience.
What is caesura?
These were highly valued members of the community who were storytellers, poets, and entertainers.
Who were scops?
I share a common fate with the sea, spinning the months around in alternate cycles.
When the glory of my light-flowing form wanes
so, too, the sea loses its swollen flood tides.
What am I?
What is the moon?
An author's general character or attitude towards his/her writing.
What is tone?