Literary Devices and Terms
A poem mourning a loss
What is an elegy?
Not able to be questioned or disputed
Inclined or eager to fight
What is bellicose?
How Beowulf harms Grendel
What is cuts off his arm?
Lord Randall's fate
What is death by poisoning?
A lengthy narrative poem, often featuring extraordinary and heroic acts
What is epic poem?
What is jejune?
Sparing or moderate in drink or diet
What is abstemious?
The poet, musician, and story-teller
Who is The Shaper?
the genre of "The Wanderer"
A compound expressing with metaphorical meaning (oar-steed = ship)
What is kenning?
Nexus
Enervate part(s) of speech
What is adjective and verb?
The dragon's gift to Grendel
What is resistance to weapons?
showing a character's personality through appearance, actions, and speech
What is indirect characterization?
A style of poetry with 14 lines of iambic pentameter
What is sonnet?
Palpable
What is able to be touched or felt?
What is an elephant? Giraffe? Palm trees?
Animal featured in the opening scene
What is a ram?
The purpose of Anglo-Saxon riddles
What is to entertain?
Poem based on emotion rather than a narrative
What is lyric poem?
Example of tautology
A model or example of something; Paragon
What is paradigm?
Grendel says _____________ is the worst pain.
What is tedium?
This line: "I do not like green eggs and ham"?
What is iambic tetrameter?