Introduction
This is one of the four conventions of a traditional epic.
What is...
1. setting is usually broad in scope
2. characters are usually larger than life
3. supernatural is incorporated
4. necessary journey/battle is involved
These are the four heroic virtues.
What are prudence, generosity, loyalty, and fortitude?
This number is repeatedly used symbolically in Sir Gawain.
What is 3?
This is another name for Bede.
What is the Father of English History?
These are the three most popular oral genres.
What are the riddle, the ballad, and the lyric?
This is a characteristic of oral poetry.
What are elevated language and variability in performances?
This is the author of Beowulf.
What is unknown?
This is how the beheading game develops the theme of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
What is it shows his true character because the stakes are very high?
This person was the oldest known English poet.
Who is Caedmon?
This helped to make lyrics memorable.
What is the repetition of sounds, words, phrases, or lines?
Epics are primarily _____ in nature.
What is didactic?
Beowulf is an example of this genre.
What is an oral epic?
The pentangle symbolizes this about Gawain.
What is faithfulness?
This is a good description of Caedmon.
What is a humble, uneducated man who had the gift of versifying Scripture?
Ballads are made up of stanzas of 4 lines each. These stanzas are called _____.
What are quatrains?
These are the three Estates.
What are clergy, nobility, and peasantry?
Grendel is mortally wounded when this happens.
What is Beowulf tears off his arm?
For this does Gawain use the girdle after his challenge.
What is a reminder of his failure and necessity of humility?
This is the subject of "Caedmon's Hymn."
What is creation?
These are two reasons why riddles were created.
What are to provide entertainment, to distract people from their hardships, and to test people's wisdom and worthiness?
This disease killed much of the population during the late middle ages.
What is the Black Death?
These two worldviews are present in Beowulf.
What are pagan and Christian?
This is a major element of a romance.
What is magic, knightly/courtly love, chivalry?
What is to help build a sense of nation identity among the English and to show how God had been at work from the English people's earliest known beginnings?
This was a common theme among lyrics.
What is Christ's love?