Story Vocab.
This is the word for a punishment that is given in return of an injury.
What is reprisal?
The time and place in which a story or series of events occurs.
What is the setting?
The biblical figure whom Grendel is said to be a descendant of.
Who is Cain?
When was the Anglo-Saxon era?
An uncontrolled desire for money and wealth.
What is avarice?
This is a type of literature that tells the tales of a hero of sorts.
What is an epic poem?
The creature that ravages Beowulf's kingdom when he is an old man.
What is a dragon?
What is Beowulf?
This is the overall main lesson of the Wife of Bath's Tale.
What is the concept that women want equal power when in a relationship with another man?
What is temporal?
When words are used to convey the opposite of their own meaning. Commonly called sarcasm.
What is verbal irony?
Who are the Geats?
This fictional king may have been based off of a military leader from centuries before his time.
Who is King Arthur?
The entity that the rebels of The Pardoner's Tale are searching for when they find a large stash of gold.
Who/what is Death?
Scolding or rebuking someone for an action of theirs.
When events don't go the way that someone might have expected. I.E., a famed bull-rider breaks his leg riding his daughter's pony.
What is situational irony?
The Danish king who enlists Beowulf's help to protect his meadhall from Grendel.
Who is Hrothgar?
This work is considered unfinished, since its author died before writing the whole thing.
What are The Canterbury Tales?
These are the three types of irony in the stories we've read.
What is dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony?
Useful for something.
What is efficacious?
What is an epic hero?
These are a handful of characteristics Beowulf shows, also known as epic hero characteristics.
What is including, but not limited to: pride, selflessness, determination, strength, and kindness?
The writer of what is largely considered the first examples of Arthurian romance.
Who was Chrétien de Troyes?
It's extremely useful for showing the humor (and sometimes, hypocrisy) that exists among people in everyday life.
Why was irony so prominently used in Chaucer's work?