Characters and Places
When did the Anglo-Saxon Period start?
What is an epic?
Why did Grendel decide not go near Hrothgars throne?
What is protected by God?
What did Grendel's mother do to avenge her sons death?
What is killing Hrothgars best warrior?
During the final battle Beowulf fights whom?
What is the dragon?
What is Sweden?
What is a break in a line of poetry?
What is a caesura?
What is the mead hall called in the epic poem Beowulf?
What is the Herot?
After the battle with Grendel's mother Beowulf give ________ to Hrothgar?
What is Grendel's head?
In the Anglo-Saxon Period the dragon represented what?
What is death?
Who is the king of Denmark?
What is Hrothgar?
What are two words used to describe a noun?
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
"Made heathen vows, hoping for Hell's Support...."
What is personification?
Beowulf hangs Grendel's arm on the rafters of Heron to...
a. represent his victory.
b. send a warning to future attackers
c. dispel doubt from Unferth
d. All the above
What is all the above?
How does Wiglaf aide Beowulf in the last battle?
What is he stays to fight with the king?
In the beginning, who was the king of Sweden?
What is Higlac?
What laments the loss of something?
What is an elegy?
Beowulf fatally wounds the monster Grendel by doing what?
What is ripping his arm out of the socket?
Beowulf kills Grendel's mother by using what?
What is a sword forged by giants?
What items failed Beowulf in his last battle?
What is the main theme of Beowulf?
What is Good v. Evil?
What is the Anglo-Saxon alphabet?
What is runes?
When the poet says "those monsters born of Cain" what literary technique is he using?
What is allusion?
In the Anglo-Saxon period people who told stories were called ______?
What is scops?
What is foreshadowing?
What is a hint bout what will happen?