Figurative Language
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word.
What is a simile?
Hints or clues about what will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
The name of the mead hall that Hrothgar built for his men.
What is Herot?
The painted figure that seems to be holding the pendulum.
Who is the Grim Reaper?
Victor's great discovery during college.
What is electricity?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using a connective word.
What is a metaphor?
A scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to go back and tell what happened at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
The biblical figure that Grendel is associated with.
What is Cain?
The event that determines the depth of the pit.
What is the narrator dropping a pebble into the pit?
The reason why Victor is horrified by the creature.
What is his appearance?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words close together in a sentence or phrase.
What is alliteration?
A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
The soldier that helps Beowulf fight the dragon.
Who is Wiglaf?
The way in which the narrator calls the rats to himself.
What is meat juice?
What is a wife?
A word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
The struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot.
What is external conflict?
How Beowulf dies.
What is poisoned dragon fangs?
The historical setting of the story.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
How the creature decided he was was going to kill himself at the end of the story.
What is fire?
In Anglo-Saxon poetry, a metaphorical phrase or compound word used to name a person, place, thing, or event indirectly.
What is a kenning?
The feeling or idea that a word has in addition to the literal meaning of the word.
What is connotation?
The location of the dragon's treasure at the end of the story.
What is buried with Beowulf?
The final attempt at killing the narrator by his captors.
What is the prison cell collapsing?
The reason Victor was convinced that the creature killed William?
What is he saw him afterward and had a strong feeling that he was the one who did it?