11th English Fall Exam Review

Descended from the biblical Cain; an outcast, doomed to wander the face of the earth.

a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.

the aged ruler of the Danes who accepts Beowulf's help in the first part of the story, aids Beowulf's development into maturity

• Grendel

• Beowulf

• Hrothgar

• Cain

Cain was the son of the devil or some fallen angel

• True

• False

is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages

• Old English

• Middle English

• Modern English

a form of the English language spoken after the Norman conquest (1066) until the late 15th century

• Old English

• Middle English

• Modern English

What ended the Anglo-Saxon period?

• The Vikings

• The Dark Ages

• The Norman Conquest

• The Medieval period

What did the Anglo-Saxons value?

• honor, loyalty and duty

• honor, strength, and honesty

• sports, health, and wealth

• wealth, beer, and duty

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Symbolism

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Kenning

a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g. oar-steed = ship.

• Alliteration

• Caesura

• Kingdom

• Kenning