Beowulf / Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales
Vocabulary
All Things Shakespeare
Potpourri
100
Two Germanic tribes.  (there are 3 big ones)

What are the Jutes and the  Angles  and the Saxpns 

100

A Franklin 

A Summoner 

What is a wealthy, indep. land owner

Calls the citizenry to church

100

a break of a rest

a hiatus 

100

Frailty, thy name is ....

what is woman.

100

regal color shared by  Alice Walker's novel and Prince's album

What is Purple

200

The language of the Beowulf 

Word that begins the epic poem 

what is Old  English

What is Hwaet!

200

Three "deaths" in Pardoner's Tale 

gold 

Old man 

plague 

200

like the Grand Canyon or speechless

what is ineffable

200

Neither a borrower nor a lender ____ 

Person giving this advice and to whom 

what is Be. 

What is Polonius to Laertes 

200

Mike, Veruca, Violet, Augustus

Author: For Whom the Bell Tolls. 

The Old Man and the Sea

What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 

Ernest Hemingway

300

Beowulf's lone fighter.

The major take away from the epic poem 

Grendel attacks this specific structure. 

Who is Wiglaf 

Loyalty and bravery are everything - otherwise there is no community. 

What is a mead hall



300

The language of the CT

another word for "in the everyday language"

what is middle English

What is in the vernacular 

300

with evil intent 

Like Mary Poppin's handbag 

Sincerely apologetic 

Nefarious

What is capacious 

What is Contrite 

300

Hamlet's foil 

Where Hamlet tells Ophelia to go

Who is Young Fortinbras 

What is:  Get thee to a Nunnery.

300

Play title for Agatha Christie's "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

Pair it with a Literary term 

What is Macbeth 

What is an allusion 

400

Grendel, Grendel's mother, the dragon - literary term that the podcast covered.

When the Vikings attacked. 

what is a metaphor

What is the late 8th century (793 CE)

400

In Wife of Bath, besides the friar, women are wary of this. 

The answer to the Knight's quest. 

What is an incubus?

For the woman to have mastery over husband 

400

To have faith in someone is to have ____ 

servile, "boot licker" 

determined, not giving up, tenacious,  

To have credence 

What is sycophantic 

What is dogged

400

Hamnet's author 

Hamlet's ghost last words to Hamlet 

Macbeth's vanquisher.

Who is Maggie O'Farrell 

"Adieu, adieu! Remember me. 

Who is Macduff.

400

Leo Tolstoy's famous novel with the first name Anna 

Harry Potter's snowy owl 

What is Karenina 

What is Hedwig