Battle with Grendel
Battle with Grendel's Mother
Battle with the Dragon
Terms
People, places & things
100

What Grendel hates the sound of

What is men's voices singing

100

What Grendel's mother takes off the wall in the hall

What is Grendel's arm

100

What the dragon hoards and what is symbolizes

Gold and treasures symbolic of greed

100
A long narrative peom
What is an epic
100

The name of Beowulf's first sword

What is Hrunting

200
How Beowulf kills Grendel
What is he rips his arm off with his bare hands
200

Where Beowulf is when Grendel's mother arrives at Herot

What is sleeping in his room

200

What the thief stole from the dragon

What is a golden goblet

200

repetition of beginning sounds

alliteration

200

Hrothgar builds this for his people to gather

What is Herot

300

Grendel casts a spell on this

What is the men's weapons

300

What Grendel's mother uses to try to kill Beowulf

What is a dagger

300

What Beowulf gives Wiglaf before he dies

His gold chain and a new title

300
A rhythmic break in the middle of lines
What is caesura
300

Invaders from Germany; brought warrior culture with them

Anglo-Saxons

400

Grendel finally shows fear when

What is when he is held fast in Beowulf's grip?

400

Who Grendel's mother kills during the night

Hrothgar's best man/friend

400

What Wiglaf does to the chosen warriors after Beowulf's death

What is banishes them

400
two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things
What is a kenning
400
The King of the Danes
What is Hrothgar
500

One reason the Danes have a difficult time fighting Grendel

What is Grendel does not fight according to men's rules?

500

The size of the giant sword, which Beowulf alone could wield, emphasizes the Anglo-Saxon belief in

Wyrd

500

How does Beowulf kill the dragon?

He stabs him in the belly
500
Ancient storyteller/singer-poet/bards

what is a scop

500

King of the Geats

What is Higlac