Intro Beowulf

An epic hero is a person whose qualities represent those valuable to his or her _____________________. 

• culture or society
• family and friends
• enemies and foes
• character and morals

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

Poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period was passed down through what means?

• Books
• Oral Tradition
• Scrolls
• Teachers

Grendel is a demon who is descended from what biblical character?

• Abel
• Abraham
• Cain
• Moses

What is a kenning?

• two word metaphor used in place of a noun
• repetition of beginning consonant sounds
• giving non-human things human characteristics
• an understatement that illustrates the opposite of what it states

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Beowulf is an example of a(n)

• Epic Poem

• Ballad

• Novella

• Cinquain

Poetic device of repeating consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

• An Epithet

• A Kenning

• A Ceasura

• Alliteration

Hrothgar is king of the

• Geats

• World

• Danes

• Thieves

Grendel is said to have

been “conceived by a pair of those monsters / born of….”

• God

• Satan

• Cain

• Abel

Gendel represents

• good

• evil

• heroism

• intelligence

What is the name of

Hrothgar’s mead-hall?

• Hollywood

• Herot

• Dunland

• Scandinavia