Recitation 1: Beowulf

Identify the rhetorical figure: "a more inclusive term is used for a less inclusive one or vice versa, as a whole for a part or a part for a whole" (OED)

• Litotes

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Identify the rhetorical figure: "an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary" (OED), or a kind of "ironic understatement" (Norton 12)

• Litotes

• Synecdoche

• Kenning

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

Identify the rhetorical figure: "The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words, especially when employed for stylistic effect" (OED)

• Apposition

• Catachresis

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Identify the figure of speech: "One of the periphrastic expressions used instead of the simple name of a thing" (OED), or a kind of circumlocutionary naming via the compounding of words

• Alliteration

• Litotes

• Kenning

• Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Identify the rhetorical figure: "The addition of a parallel word or phrase by way of explanation or illustration of another" (OED)

• Alliteration

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

• Apposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Identify the rhetorical figure: "a thing used or regarded as a substitute for or symbol of something else" (OED)

• Periphrasis

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

True or False: All medieval periods of Britain were remarkably monolingual, with Old English as the standardized lingua franca.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

From 871 to 899, ____ oversaw the translation of various works into Old English vernacular, including Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.

• Aelfric of Eynsham

• King Alfred of the West Saxons

• Wulfstan, Archbishop of York

• King Ethelbert of Kent

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"If one of his kinsmen had been slain, a man had a moral obligation either to kill the slayer or to exact the payment of ____ (man-price) in compensation."

• Hapax Legomena

• Wyrd

• Thane

• Wergild

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

The text of the Beowulf manuscript of Cotton Vitellius A 15 was likely written and transcribed by a single author who lived in the midst of a Danish, pagan warrior culture.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5