Grammar
This proper noun should be capitalized in the following sentence: "my aunt sally lives in chicago."
What are Chicago, Aunt, and Sally?
The specific literary device used in this description: "waves, splash toward the sky, as dark as the air, as black as the rain.
What is a Simile?
The central theme of this poem involves an invitation to enjoy the pleasures of nature and this emotion.
What is Love (or Romantic Love)?
While the Shepherd focuses on love and fantasy, the primary theme of the Nymph's reply focuses on the inevitable passage of this
What is Time?
Even though the Nymph rejects the Shepherd’s offer, the two poems are surprisingly similar because they share the exact same rhythm and this AABB sound pattern.
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
It is the specific name for the error in this sentence: "The math test is hard, I need to study."
What is a Run-on (or Comma Splice)?
Which word describes Grendel's mother's state of deep, unhappy, and obsessive thinking.
What is Brooding?
This specific type of imagery, used throughout the poem, idealizes rural life, depicting shepherds and nature as perfect and carefree.
What is Pastoral Imagery?
The Nymph uses imagery of seasonal change (from Spring to Winter) to represent this human reality.
What is Aging (or Death / Mortality / Loss of Youth)?
In our vocabulary words, a "vane" is a wind device. However, if you spell it V-A-I-N, it becomes an adjective describing a person who is this
What is Conceited (or Self-absorbed / Obsessed with looks)?
To turn the fragment "Waiting for the bus in the rain" into a complete sentence, you must add these two missing elements.
What are a Subject and a Verb?
The phrase "twisted gold, heaped-up ancient treasure" is used in the poem to represent this concept, which defines a warrior's status and honor.
What is Wealth (or Glory/Success)?
The poem uses a sing-song "iambic tetrameter" rhythm (four beats per line). This creates a musical, lighthearted effect that mimics this feeling.
What is Optimism (or Simplicity / A heartbeat / A song)?
The Shepherd’s poem takes place in an eternal Spring, but the Nymph’s reply is set in this cold, contrasting season.
What is Winter?
The Beowulf poet often repeats consonant sounds at the start of words, such as "Grim and greedy" or "Sea-shell." This technique is called this.
What is Alliteration?
This is the correct pronoun phrase to replace the underlined words: "Me and him went to the store.
What is "He and I"
By stating that Grendel's mother's strength is "less" than an armed man's strength (like an Amazon warrior), the author reveals this specific bias or tone regarding gender.
What is a Patriarchal Tone? (Acceptable answers: Sexist tone, belief that women are weaker than men, or dismissing female power).
Stanzas 3 through 5 primarily serve to list these items to convince the nymph to stay.
What are Material Gifts (or Luxuries / Promises of gifts like a gown, shoes, or belt)?
: To reject the Shepherd's offer, the speaker employs these two concepts to prove him wrong: one is the fading of flowers, and the other is the rotting of fruits
What are Decay and Change? (Accept also: "Time and Death" or "Nature's Cycles")
The Shepherd represents an Idealistic view of the world (everything is perfect), while the Nymph represents this opposing view (seeing things as they actually are).
What is a Realistic view (or Realism / Skepticism)?
In the sentence "The weather vane fell off the roof because it was rusty," the word vane acts as this grammatical term for the pronoun it.
What is the Antecedent?
The poet describes a deer that is being hunted by hounds but refuses to jump into the lake to save itself, preferring to die on the shore. This image reveals that the lake is not just dangerous, but this.
What is Cursed (or Evil / Hellish / Unholy)
Despite the Shepherd's many promises of gold buckles and coral clasps, the poem never mentions this crucial practical detail about how a shepherd could afford such luxuries.
What is Money (or Wealth / Reality / Economics)?
In the final stanza, the Nymph uses this specific 2-letter word to suggest that she would live with him, but only under the impossible condition that youth and joy lasted forever.
What is "If"? (The famous line: "If all the world and love were young...")
In the text, the "Lake" (or Fen) represents hell, darkness, and isolation. In contrast, Heorot Hall represents these human values.
What are Community, Safety, and Civilization? (Accept also: Light, Joy, or Order).