characters
literary devices
Anglo Saxon background
plot
conflicts
100
"conceived by a pair of monsters born of Adam"
What is Grendel?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds
What is alliteration
100
The three languages which the Vikings, the Romans and the Angles/Saxons/Jutes used which contributed to the English Language.
What is Swedish, Italian, and German
100
The reason the dragon is angry
What is a jeweled cup has been stolen from his treasure
100
Beowulf had to do this in order to fight Grendel's Mom
What is swim in a boiling lake
200
"Who of all the men on earth was the strongest!"
Who is Beowulf?
200
The reason the poet used kennings and alliteration
What is as memory devices
200
The country in which Beowulf's fought with the dragon
What is Sweden
200
The reason Beowulf feels that the fight with the dragon will be his last
What is he is old
300
The only loyal Geat during Beowulf's conflict with the dragon
Who is Wiglaf?
300
The three types of kennings
What are possessive, possessive, hyphenated?
300
The Anglo-Saxon word for loyalty to the chief
What is comitatus
300
The country in which Hrothgar and his men live
What is Denmark
300
Beowulf allows this before his fight with Grendel
What is the murder of one man.
400
Hiflac's follower
Who is Beowulf
400
A Geat Warrior
Who is Beowulf?
400
The reason Grendel can not touch Hrothgar's throne
What is because it is protected by God
500
Hrothgar's queen
Who is Welthow
500
The symbolic gesture Beowulf includes after his fight with Grendel's Mother
What is beheads Grendel
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