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Beowulf/Anglo-Saxons
Middle Ages
Grammar
Oedpius
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100
This literary device is displayed in the line, "Had met one whose hands were harder ..."
What is alliteration?
100
This is the term for a story within a story.
What is a frame story/narrative?
100
"Geoffrey wrote about people at the inn" is an example of this type of clause.
What is a main clause.
100
This is the Greek translation of the name Oedipus.
What is "swollen foot"?
100
The city in Oedipus that suffers from a plague is this city.
What is Thebes?
200
"That mighty protector of men" is an example of this literary device.
What is a kenning?
200
This is the first and last name of the person who wrote The Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
200
"After they ate breakfast in the cafeteria" is an example of this type of clause.
What is a subordinate clause?
200
This is the English translation of the Greek word "rex."
What is king?
200
This character in Beowulf represents loyalty.
Who is Wiglaf?
300
His incredible strength illustrates that Beowulf is this character type.
What is an epic hero?
300
This character is poor. He spends more money on books than on food. He speaks wisely and is admired by Chaucer.
Who is the Student/Oxford Cleric?
300
The type of sentence error displayed here: "The students were studying, they were drinking energy drinks, they stayed up all night."
What is a run-on?
300
He is the blind prophet.
Who is Tiresias?
300
A kenning is a special kind of this literary device/figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
400
This is an Anglo-Saxon storyteller.
What is a scop?
400
This character wears colorful clothing and is described as a "ladies' man."
Who is the Squire?
400
"The playwright writing about a tragic hero in ancient Greece" is an example of this type of error.
What is a fragment?
400
This is where Oedipus is left to die as a baby and where he is exiled to at the end.
What is Mt. Cithaeron?
400
This is the first and last name of the Host in the Canterbury Tales?
Who is Harry Bailey?
500
This is the year of the Norman Invasion.
What is 1066?
500
This character has been married five times, is gap-toothed, wears new clothes and shoes, and is wealthy.
Who is the Wife of Bath?
500
"The entire school was late to third period because there was a train stopped in town." is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
500
This is the location of Apollo's oracle.
What is Mt. Parnassus? or What is Delphi?
500
These are the three words represented by the acronym for the type of documentation style you are required to use on your senior paper.
What is Modern Language Association?