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The metaphor Shakespeare uses to represent jealousy.

• Green with envy. 
• Seeing red. 
• Jealousy is hateful.
• "green-eyed monster"

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Hamlet calls Denmark a prison because 

• he cannot leave Denmark.
• the King has locked him in there.
• he feels trapped.
• there is something wrong with him.

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When Myrtle was introduced on page 25, why is she described as "a thickish figure of a woman (who) blocked out the light from the office door"?

• Because she's not considered to be very attractive.
• To symbolize that she's a good person by incorporating light.
• To symbolize her being bad or evil because she blocks the light.
• So the reader understands just how "thick" she is because of the light she's blocking.

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Women in trouble are also known as __________ ____ ________________.  

• Ladies in Waiting
• Girls in Danger
• Damsels in Distress
• Madame on a trolly

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She carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

• Mrs. McKee
• Catherine
• Myrtle
• Jordan

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"Hump it" means what?

• To carry something
• Dig a foxhole
• Shoot at the enemy
• Stay in formation

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Which lines below best describe this?

• Red is feeling brave

  With all your might.

• Red is hotness

  You get inside

  When you’re embarrassed

• And when you’re angry

  Red runs through your head.

• Red is a show-off,

  No doubt about it

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He is as ugly as sin.

This is an example of which literary device?

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

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"shepherd of evil, guardian of crime" (line 273)

"the afflictor/Of men, tormentor of their days" (lines 331-32)

The above excerpts are examples of...

• The Anglo-Saxon concept of wyrd

• Kennings that describe Grendel's mother

• Kennings that describe Grendel

• Biblical allusions that reiterate Grendel's evil nature

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The vicious attack on the unarmed village was not...

• warranted

• warrant

• warranting

• warrants

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