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Hero's Journey #1
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Beowulf
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The stage that prompts the hero to go on the journey...
What is... The Call to Adventure
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This stage is often symbolic of either victory, escape, or the human spirit...
What is... Flight
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The protagonist of Beowulf.
Who is... Beowulf
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A recurring pattern in a test...
What is... Motif
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*DOUBLE JEOPARDY* An Anglo-Saxon story teller...
What is... a Scop
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In this stage, the hero meets a character who is symbolic of the people in our lives that help guide us on our true path...
What is... The Mentor
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In this stage, the hero faces death or transcends their old identity...
What is... Apotheosis
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The king of Heorot...
Who is... King Hrothgar
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How the author feels about the subject of the text...
What is... Tone
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The name of King Arthur's sword...
What is... Excalibur
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The stage in which the hero crosses from one world to the next and becomes a stranger in a strange land is called...
What is... Crossing the Threshold
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The stage in which the hero comes to see eye to eye with a father figure, family member, or some other character of authority...
What is... Atonement
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The name of the sword given to Beowulf by Unferth...
What is... Hrunting
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How the author wants YOU to feel at any point in the plot...
What is... Mood or Atmosphere
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Luke Skywalker's primary weapon...
What is... A lightsaber
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A series of tests that the hero must go through in order to gain confidence...
What is... The Road of Trials
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The stage in which the hero chooses to travel from the alien or strange world back into the world of normality...
What is... The Return Threshold
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The clans from which all of the main characters originate...
Who are... The Geats and The Danes
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The reason a text is written...
What is... The author's purpose
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A typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature...
What is... An archetype
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This stage is symbolic of facing ones greatest fear...
What is... The Final Battle or Dragon Battle
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The hero wins some special reward or wisdom with which he returns home and shares with society...
What is... The Ultimate Boon
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The name of the language in which the Beowulf story was originally told...
What is... Anglo-Saxon
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The connections between texts regardless of origin or genre...
What is... Intertextuality
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Incongruity, parody, reversal, juxtaposition, and irony...
What are... The elements of satire