Unit 1 Texts
How Beowulf and his men get to Herot.
What is by boat?
The number of pilgrims including the narrator that go on the pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury.
What is 30?
Who first discovered the ghost of King Hamlet.
A long narrative poem. Example: Beowulf. (Hint: contains a ____ hero)
What is an epic?
The words the acronym "F.A.N.B.O.Y.S." stands for.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
What Byrtnoth from "The Battle of Maldon" acts as for his men as he guides them and fights alongside them.
What is an archetypal leader?
Who prompted Woolf to write "Shakespeare's Sister" after writing in a newspaper that “it was impossible for any woman, past, present, or to come, to have the genius of Shakespeare.”
Who is a bishop?
Where Hamlet tells Ophelia to go in his speech to her.
What is a nunnery?
An action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature.
Unexplained or references to other works, people, or events; connects familiar and unfamiliar ideas.
What is an allusion?
What Beowulf returns with as after successfully killing Grendel's mother in her underwater lair using a sword made for a giant.
What is Grendel's head?
A hypocritical character of The Canterbury Tales who works for the church yet takes money from them.
Who is the Pardoner?
Hamlet's tragic flaw.
What is indecision?
Writing that offers insight into society, its values, and its customs, and can be used to reveal the virtues and faults of characters.
What is social commentary?
"He slipped through the door and there in the silence
Snatched up thirty men, smashed them
Unknowing in their beds and ran out with their bodies" (Beowulf, lines 36-38) is an example of...
What is a diazeugma?
Who or what Richard Lovelace, in his poem "To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars", is the mistress he is telling his love he is leaving her for.
What is the battlefield? What is war?
What Benjamin Zephaniah considers himself after travelling the world despite being born and raised in Britain and being of West Indian heritage.
What is an internationalist?
Where the actors, that Hamlet uses to test whether Claudius is guilty of his father's death, come from.
What is Elsinore?
"John owns several sports cars, lives in a Manhattan penthouse, and doesn't have to work a day in his life," is an example of...
What is indirect characterization?
"And specially, from every shire's end/In England, down to Canterbury they wend..." (the Prologue, lines 15-16) is an example of...
What is an enjambed couplet? What is an enjambment?
Beowulf's father, who once received a great favor from Hrothgar, King of Denmark.
Who is Ecgtheow?
Not being given the same level of education, the stereotypes of the woman's intellect at the time, the fact that women were only expected to work in the home and care for children.
What are things that prevented Judith from becoming as successful as her brother William Shakespeare?
In his soliloquy "To Be or Not to Be", why Hamlet might consider life over suicide despite suicide being the way for him to escape all of his problems.
What is the unknown of the after-life?
An argument that is based on logical reasoning and making examples.
What is a paradigm?
The phrase "in her mind" in the sentence, "Their imagery lingers in her mind long afterward," is prepositional and acts as this part of speech in the sentence.
What is an adverb?