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Literary Terms
Beowulf
Language
Authors
Beheadings
100
A warning or indication of a future event
What is foreshadowing?
100
The primary villain in Beowulf
What is Grendel?
100
Beowulf was first written in this language
What is Olde English?
100
Author of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
What is Anonymous?
100
This character survives his own beheading
What is The Green Knight?
200
A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology
What is an archetype?
200
The name of the hall that Beowulf comes to defend
What is Herot?
200
The legends of king arthur were written in this language
What is Middle English?
200
Author of Morte d'Arthur
What is Thomas Mallory?
200
This character had his head removed to remove him as head of state
What is Macbeth?
300
An expression designed to call something to mind without referencing it specifically; an indirect or passing reference
What is an allusion?
300
Beowulf was first shared orally, through this man whose job was to tell the story for entertainment
What is scop?
300
Germanic English gained French influence during which invasion
What is the Norman Conquest?
300
Author of Jane Eyre
What is Charlotte Bronte?
300
The only female beheading
What is Grendel's mother?
400
The process of releasing and thereby providing relief from strong or repressed emotions
What is catharsis?
400
The leader of the land that Beowulf comes to help
What is Hrothgar?
400
The meaning of word
What is fate?
400
Author of Grendel
What is John Gardner?
400
His head was taken from his days old corpse
What is Grendel?
500
A characterizing word or phrase occurring in place of the name of a person or thing
What is an epithet?
500
One of Beowulf's men who stays by his side until his death.
What is Wiglaf?
500
The witches in Macbeth speak in this type of sing-song verse
What is trochaic tetrameter?
500
Author of The Idylls of the King and The Lady of Shalott
What is Alfred Lord Tennyson
500
His head was taken in battle and "fixed upon our battlements"
What is McDonwald?