Cultural Analysis of Beowulf: Analyzing Word Choice on Meaning and Evidence-Based Inferences

The following lines best portray what concept from Anglo-Saxon culture? "Hrothgar led . . . the Danes to such glory that comrades and kinsmen swore by his sword" (27).

• Comitatus

• Kenning

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What do the following lines describe that was important to Anglo-Saxon society? "He thought of greatness and resolved to build a hall that would hold his mighty band" (27).

• Comitatus

• Mead-hall

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What choice below is best representated in this quote from Beowulf? "Day after day, the music rang loud in that hall, the harp's rejoicing . . . of the ancient beginnings of us all, recalling the Almighty making the earth" (28).

• Christianity

• Paganism

• Druids

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"The poet's clear songs, sung of the ancient beginnings of us all" (28). What important member of Anglo-Saxon society does this quote represent?

• Druids

• Scops

• Fortune-tellers

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"The truth is simple: no man swims in the sea as I can, no strength is a match for mine." This line best represents what aspect of Anglo-Saxon culture?

• Wergild

• Wyrd

• Boasting

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

"Fate will unwind as it must!" This line portrays Anglo-Saxon's belief in what?

• Wyrd

• Wergild

• Kennings

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Hrothgar says, "I bought the end of Edgetho's quarrel, sent ancient treasures through the ocean's furrows to the Wulfings." What Anglo-Saxon idea/tradition does this portray?

• Wyrd

• Mead

• Wergild

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Only fire, they had planned, could shatter what such skill had put together, swallow in hot flames such splendor of ivory and wood." What literary device do these lines portray?

• Kenning

• Alliteration

• Wergild

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

They live in secret places, windy cliffs, wolf-dens where water pours from the rocks, then runs undergroudn, where mist steams like black clouds, and the groves of trees growing out over the lake are covered in frozen spray, and wind down snakelike roots that reach as far as the water and help keep it dark." The above lines portray an author's use of description to create what?

• An allusion

• Alliteration

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"And all at once the greedy she-wolf who'd ruled those waters for half a hundred years discovered him." The renaming of Grendel's mother as a greedy she-wolf is an example of the Anglo-Saxon's use of what

• Imagery

• Kennings

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4