Scheme
A similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words.
What is parallelism I?
Makes an explicit comparison of two things different in kind but sharing a common characteristic and uses the words "like" or "as".
What is simile?
The ship flew like a bird across the waves
What is a simile?
The bland verb that would be replaced with "sprinted".
What is go/went?
“They have seen my strength for themselves, have watched me rise from the darkness of war, dripping with my enemies’ blood. I drove five great giants into chains, chased all of that race from the earth. I swam in the blackness of night, hunting monsters out of the ocean, and killing them one by one; death was my errand and the fate they had earned. Now Grendel and I are called together, and I’ve come.”
Who is Beowulf?
A similarity of structure in a pair or series of related phrases or clauses.
What is parallelism II?
An indirect comparison of two different kinds of things without using "like" or "as".
What is metaphor?
“Where the bold of both, after battle’s brunt”
What is aliteration?
The bland verb that would be replaced with "remarked".
What is said?
“He strode quickly across the inlaid floor, snarling and fierce: his eyes gleamed in the darkness, burned with a gruesome light. Then he stopped, seeing the hall crowded with sleeping warriors,... and his heart laughed, he relished the sight, intended to tear the life from those bodies by morning.”
Who is Grendel?
The occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
Human characteristics are attributed to a non-human thing.
What is personification?
There Beowulf stood still brave, still strong/
What is parallelism?
A strong verb that might replace the weak "got".
What is received (accepted, won, etc.)?
"Do not foster pride, glorious warrior! The great fame of your might lasts but a little while."
Who is Hrothgar?
A scheme in which strongly contrasting (or opposite) concepts are expressed in a parallel form.
What is antithesis?
A direct comparison of two things different in kind but sharing a common characteristic using "like" or "as" that continues for two or more sentences.
What is an extended simile?
Give me liberty or give me death!
What is antithesis?
The strong verb that might replace the verb "went".
What is escaped, fled, etc.?
“In the time I was given I lived in my own land, ruling my people well, never turning to treachery, or swearing to oaths contrary to right. In this I take comfort and joy when now I am stricken with death-dealing wounds.”
Who is Beowulf?
A scheme where a vowel sound is repeated in adjacent or closely connected words.
What is assonance?
An indirect comparison of two different kinds of things without using "like" or "as" that continues for several sentences.
What is an extended metaphor?
The Almighty's candle went out.
What is metaphor?
Strong verbs you might substitute for the weak ones in this sentence.
Beowulf got a sword, went on a boat, talked to the guard, and looked at the hall.
What are sheathed, sailed, answered, and admired (or others)?
"I would rather my body be robbed in the same burning blaze as my gold-giver's body than go back home bearing arms".
Who is Wiglaf?