Beowulf
What literary device using descriptive phrases is heavily used in Beowulf?
What is Kennings?
The pilgrimage structure is an example of what literary form?
What is a frame tale.
What title does Macbeth recieve after the first battle?
What is the Thane of Cawdor.
Why does Victor abandon the creature immediately after it wakes up?
What is because it was ugly and that terrified him.
Heroic poetry and oral tradition describe which time period?
What is Anglo-Saxon, or Old English.
Why does Beowulf decide to fight Grandel without weapons?
What is to fight fairly, gain honor, and match Grendel's strength.
Why do the pilgrims agree to tell stories?
What is to entertain themselves on their pilgrimage to the tomb of Thomas Becket.
What are the first 3 predictions Macbeth recieves from the witches?
What are 1. Thane of Glamis 2. Thane of Cawdor 3. King hereafter
How does the creature learn language?
What is by living by and watching the DeLacey family.
This time period emphasized the importance of everyday life, the common man, and nature.
What is Romanticism?
What major warning does Hrothgar give Beowulf after the victory?
What is he warns him against pride.
Which Pilgrim is described most positively and why?
Who is the Parson because he lives out what he preaches.
What are the final 3 predictions Macbeth recieves from the witches?
What are:
1. No man born of a woman can harm him
2. The woods come to Dunsinane hill
3. Beware MacDuff
The novel's structure is an example of what technique?
What is a frame tale.
This time period brought some of Englands most famouse writings and plays.
What is the Renaissance? (Shakespeare)
Early hints of Beowulf's death are examples of what literary device?
What is foreshadowing?
Decriptions of clothing reveal characterization through what literary technique having to do with chracterization?
What is indirect characterization?
Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair represents what major theme from Macbeth?
What is appearance vs. reality.
Whay does Victor destroy the female creature?
What is because he is afraid they might reproduce and cause hurt and chaos.
This literary time period valued clarity, restrained emotion and universal truth?
What is Neoclassicism.
Why does the dragon attack Beowulf's kingdom?
What is because a thief steals a cup from his hoard.
How does Chaucer show church corruption indirectly?
What is through their actions, behavior, and appearance.
Why does Malcolm claim to be a depraved tyrant in his encounter with Macduff at the end of the story?
What is to test Macduff's loyalty to the true crown of Scotland.
The major theme shown through Frankenstein creating the monster and the aftermath that comes from that.
What is the destruction of the natural order of creation?
Post War literature, characterized by fragmentation, disillusionment, and stream-of-consciousness, is broadly defined by this literary term.
What is Modernism?