Beowulf
The Wanderer/The Seafarer
Epic Conventions
History of the English Language
The Iliad
100
The main hero who save Herot
Who is Beowulf?
100
The type of poetry that these two works are.
What is Anglo-Saxon poetry?
100
The main character of the epic who is super strong and beyond the norm.
Who is the hero?
100
The ancient people of Britain who believed in nature and many gods.
Who are the Celts?
100
A great Greek hero who fought in the Trojan war. His only weakness was his heel.
Who is Achilles?
200
The two monsters who attack Herot.
Who are Grendel and Grendel's Mother?
200
The two people talking during The Wanderer.
Who is the narrator and the wanderer?
200
Long speeches instead of speaking and listing lineage.
What is Monologues and Catalogning
200
The people who brought Christianity to Britain, led by Julius Caesar.
Who are the Romans?
200
The man who killed Achilles' friend and who Achilles challenges in a duel.
Who is Hector, one of the Trojan princes?
300
The monster that kills Beowulf
What is the Dragon?
300
What the seafarer represents.
What is an exiled Christian?
300
Beginning in the middle of the action and going down to a dark place to save someone/thing
What is In Media Res and Journey to Hell?
300
The tribe of people who arrived from Germany and Denmark and conquered Britain through war.
Who are the Anglo-Saxons?
300
To disgrace him and not allow his family the burial rights, Achilles does this to his dead body.
Why does Achilles tie Hector's body to his chariot and drag it back to the Greek camp?
400
What the dragon represents.
What is Satan and/or greed?
400
How the Seafarer and the Wanderer are similar.
What is the discussion of loneliness and exile and how Christianity is changing their world?
400
A descriptive phrase with a name that is repeated
What is a Stock Epithet?
400
One of the greatest Anglo-Saxon poem.
What is Beowulf?
400
This king is incredibly brave by going to the Greek camp to plead for his son's body back.
Who is Priam, the king of Troy?
500
The person who helps Beowulf in the end and becomes the new hero.
Who is Wiglaf?
500
What the pleasures of Earth represent int he Seafarer.
What is sin?
500
A word/phrase substituted for a name.
What is a Kenning?
500
The two things that combined to form early English.
What is Latin and old English?
500
The qualities of Achilles.
What is emotional, vengeful, and stubborn?
M
e
n
u