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 underwater
100

What did Beowulf ask Wiglaf to do before he died?

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
200
Comes to Beowulf's rescue

Wiglaf

200

repetition of beginning sounds

alliteration

200
Hrothgar builds this in celebration of the Danes' victory
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

When Wiglaf reminds the other soldiers of all of the things Beowulf gave them and that they should fight, it is an example of

Comitatus

300

Where you use part of something to represent the whole

Synecdoche

300

Only one to help Bewoulf when he fought the dragon

Wiglaf

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
What characteristic does Beowulf show during the Battle with Grendel
What is bravery
500
Why does Grendel's mother only kill one soldier in the beginning
What is to lure Beowulf into her lair
500

What does Wiglaf say the others have lost?

Honor

500

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

what is an epithet?

500

King of the Geats

What is Higlac

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