Beowulf
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Literary Terms
Wild Card
100
Biblical murderer Grendel is related to.
Who is Cain?
100
What the Pardoner keeps in every town.
What is a jolly wench?
100
Number of husbands the Wife of Bath has had.
What is five?
100
When an author TELLS you about a character.
What is direct characterization?
100
Number of years Grendel attacked Hrothgar's meadhall.
What is twelve?
200
Part of Grendel's body ripped off by Beowulf.
What is his arm?
200
Who/what the three rioters want to kill.
What is Death?
200
Crime the knight commits.
What is rape?
200
When an author SHOWS you about a character?
What is indirect characterization?
200
Name of the saint whose shrine the pilgrims are traveling to see.
Who is Sir Thomas Beckett?
300
Reason Beowulf was unharmed by Grendel's mother's dagger.
What is he was protected by God?
300
Where the three rioters find Death.
What is under an oak tree?
300
The old woman's request for saving the knight's life.
What is marrying her?
300
When someone says one thing and means the opposite.
What is verbal irony?
300
Code of honor knights were expected to follow.
What is chivalry?
400
Character who makes fun of Beowulf for losing a swimming race.
Who is Unferth?
400
Method used by the youngest rioter to kill the other two.
What is poison wine?
400
What all women desire.
What is having control of their husbands?
400
When the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs.
What is situational irony?
400
The old man in the Pardoner's tale is really this person in disguise.
Who is God?
500
Name of Hrothgar's famous meadhall.
What is Herot?
500
Character who the Pardoner claims should be the first to buy his pardons.
Who is the Host?
500
Two choices given to the knight by the old woman.
What is she can be old, ugly, and faithful, or young, beautiful, and unfaithful?
500
A perfect example of something.
What is an archetype?
500
Weapon used to kill Grendel's mother (and who made it.)
What is a sword made by giants?
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