"Wyrd" was the ancient belief in the concept of ___________.
What is fate?
100
Name the incorrect sentence type from the following choices: Simple, Compound, Complex, Simple-Complex, Compound-Complex.
What is Simple-Complex?
100
___ is the number of pilgrims (including the narrator). ____ is the number of originally planned tales.
What are 30 and 120?
100
While the hockey game was my primary reason for going out, the soft pretzels were just an ______________ perk!
A. Effervescent
B. Incidental
C. Insolvent
What is incidental?
100
____________ is defined as technical and professional language.
What is jargon?
200
Many epics focus on ________________.
A. Viking Wars
B. Dragon Slaying
C. Heroes
What are heroes?
200
"One independent clause in a subject-verb pattern" is a _______________ sentence.
What is simple?
200
The ___________ is the character that the narrator seems to like the best. He is described first.
Who is the Knight?
200
Stop _______________ in the hallway, and get to class.
A. Meandering
B. Lampooning
C. Heisting
What is meandering?
200
This literary technique was heavily used in the short story "Frederigo's Falcon."
What is irony?
300
This is the language in which Beowulf was originally written.
What is Old English?
300
"More than one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses" is a ________________ sentence.
What is compound-complex?
300
A commonality between several of the characters is that _________________.
A. They don't live according to their position (job).
B. They all worship the Knight and his son.
C. They drink and gamble away their earnings.
What is "A. They don't live according to their position"?
300
Be sure to wash your hands with ______________ amounts of water after chemistry class.
A. Indefatigable
B. Copious
C. Voracious
What is copious?
300
In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," the knight must find the answer to this question.
What is the one thing women most desire?
400
"He never dared touch Hrothgar's glorious throne, protected by God" contains an example of a(n) _______________.
A. Allusion
B. Kenning
C. Stock Epithet
What is an allusion?
400
"Two independent clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction" is a ______________ sentence?
What is compound?
400
The ________________ is the character who would throw the best party.
Who is the Franklin?
400
Last year, "YOLO" quickly became a _______________ phrase.
A. Brusque
B. Dearth
C. Hackneyed
What is hackneyed?
400
_______________ is the cause of all of the problems in "The Pardoner's Tale."
What is greed?
500
"...sorrow heaped at his door by hell-forged hands..." contains an example of a(n) ________________.
A. Allusion
B. Kenning
C. Stock Epithet
What is a kenning?
500
"An independent clause and a dependent clause" is a _________________ sentence.
What is complex?
500
The pilgrims' clothing, job and belongings tell us a great deal about _________________.
A. the division of classes
B. their characterization
What is "B. their characterization"?
500
Some people get nervous when a cop is in close ____________ to them.
A. Proximity
B. Jargon
C. Torpor
What is proximity?
500
_______________ is the author of Beowulf.
What is: "Trick Question: Original author is unknown"?