Literary Elements
This literary device is "the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words"
What is alliteration?
This epic poem features a hero who battles monsters like Grendel.
What is Beowulf?
This Shakespeare play features a Danish prince struggling with revenge.
What is Hamlet?
This poem by John Donne directly addresses Death as a person.
What is "Death, Be Not Proud"?
This character in "Beowulf" is described as "the shepherd of evil, guardian of crime".
Who is Grendel?
This term refers to the perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
This character in "The Canterbury Tales" sells fake relics and pardons.
Who is the Pardoner?
This character delivers the famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy.
Who is Hamlet?
What poetic device is used throughout "Death, Be Not Proud" to give human qualities to death.
What is personification?
This character in "The Canterbury Tales" admits to preaching against the very vice he embodies.
Who is the Pardoner?
This figure of speech makes a comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
This Old English word means "fate" and plays a significant role in Anglo-Saxon literature.
What is "wyrd"?
This literary device is a long speech by a character alone on stage, revealing their thoughts to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
In "Death, Be Not Proud", the poet compares death to this peaceful state.
What is sleep?
This character in "Hamlet" is described as "a little more than kin and less than kind."
Who is Hamlet?
This literary technique provides hints or clues about future events in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
This medieval poetic device is a compound expression used in place of a simple noun, especially in Old English poetry?
What is a kenning?
This queen in "Hamlet" marries her late husband's brother.
Who is Gertrude?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The rhyme scheme of "Death, Be Not Proud" is this, ending with a rhyming couplet.
What is ABBA ABBA CDDC EE?
This heroic character is described as "the mightiest man on earth, high-born and powerful."
Who is Beowulf?
This rhetorical device involves asking a question for effect, not expecting an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This Latin phrase meaning "greed is the root of all evil" is quoted in "The Canterbury Tales."
What is "Radix malorum est cupiditas"?
This literary device in "Hamlet" compares Hamlet's father to Hyperion and his uncle to a satyr.
What is an allusion?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This literary device is exemplified in the line, "Death, thou shalt die" from "Death, Be Not Proud."
What is a paradox?
This character in "Hamlet" grants Laertes permission to return to France.
Who is King Claudius?