Vocabulary 1
This word's synonyms include keen, enthusiastic, grasping.
What is avid?
An epic was written to be traditionally ____ in nature.
What is didactic?
These are the four stages of the writing process.
What are planning, drafting, revising, and publishing?
This word means the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; to waste away.
What is atrophy?
Who wrote Beowulf?
What is author unknown?
This word's antonyms include virtuous, honorable, praiseworthy, meritorious.
What is nefarious?
What is written, oral?
This mode for writing makes the reader want to take action or to change position.
What is persuasive?
This word's synonyms include roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful.
What is devious?
Beowulf is considered to be this genre.
What is oral epic?
This word means ridiculous, laughable, absurd.
What is ludicrous?
Old English literary works are in one of these two languages.
What are Medieval Latin or Old English?
This paragraph organization technique emphasizes similarity or difference.
What is comparison/contrast?
This word's antonyms include imaginary, unreal, meaningless.
What is substantive?
Hrothgar offers a huge banquet after the building of Herot Hall. This generosity reveals his dedication to this kind of relationship between him and his followers.
What is comitatus?
This word's synonyms include shortsighted.
What is myopic?
These three classes were part of the feudal society.
What are clergy, knights/nobles, and peasantry?
This expresses the main idea of an entire piece of writing.
What is the thesis statement?
This word means to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers.
What is glean?
Beowulf mortally wounds Grendel by doing this.
What is tearing off his arm?
This word's antonyms include scorched, sere, barren.
What is verdant?
This is a characteristic of oral poetry.
What is
a) variability between performances
b) elevated language
c) a strong use of repetition, emphasis, and sound devices
These are the two main rules for an outline.
What are
a) If you have a I, you have to have a II.
b) Stay consistent in wording (parallelism).
This word's antonyms include disbelief, skepticism, incredulity.
What is credence?
Beowulf consistently mixes these two ideals.
What is pagan and Christian?