Battle with Grendel
Battle with Grendel's Mother
Battle with the Dragon
Terms
People, places & things
100
What causes Grendel to enter Herot in the beginning
What is he was irritated with the music and loud men
100

Where the Battle with Grendel's Mother took place

What is her underwater lair

100

Beowulf asks Wiglaf to do what before he dies?

What is to go and get the treasure so he can see his reward or to build him a monument by the sea so all can remember his name

100
A long narrative peom
What is an epic
100
The name of Beowulf's sword
What is Hrunting
200
How Beowulf kills Grendel
What is he rips his arm off with his bare hands
200

Beowulf uses this to kill Grendel's Mother

What is the sword from the cave wall, the giants' sword

200

He comes to Beowulf's rescue

Wiglaf

200

repetition of beginning sounds

alliteration

200

Hrothgar's meadhall where Grendel begins his killing

What is Herot

300
Grendel casts a spell on this
What is the men's weapons
300
Beowulf takes this with them from Grendel's Mother's Lair
What is Grendel's head
300

True or False: Wiglaf thinks he and his comrades should help Beowulf fight the dragon because then they can claim the treasure.

What is False: He thinks they will help because they had already promised to repay Beowulf's kindness with their lives

300
A rhythmic break in the middle of lines
What is caesura
300

True or False: Beowulf used Hrunting to kill Grendel's mother

False

400
Why did Beowulf keep Grendel's arm after killing him
What is to keep is as a trophy
400
What was Grendel's Mothers intentions
What is to seek revenge for her son's death
400

What happens to the dragon's treasure?

What is it is buried in the monument/tower they built for Beowulf

400
two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things
What is a kenning
400
The King of the Danes
What is Hrothgar
500

Identify three reasons why Beowulf helps Hrothgar

1. to help people (do a good deed)

2. to gain more glory (reputation)

3. to honor his father's debt to Hrothgar (wergild)

500

Why does Grendel's mother only kill one soldier in the beginning

She lacks the speed and strength of Grendel

500

Why does the dragon initially begin his attack on the Geats?

a thief steals a jeweled cup

500

 descriptive phrase expressing a quality that is characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

what is a stock epithet?

500

King of the Geats when Beowulf travels to Denmark to help the Danes

What is Higlac

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