Beowulf Summative - Pattern and Grammar

Look at the lines from Headley’s Beowulf below and identify three examples of alliteration.

“An avenger lay in wait,

counting sworded seconds until the latest hour,

her heart full of hatred. Grendel’s mother,

warrior-woman, outlaw, meditated on misery.

She lived, ill-fated, sinking beneath cold currents

to her kingdom under-country.”

Look at the lines from Heaney’s Beowulf below and identify three caesuras. Each must be two words.

“Without more ado, he dived in to the heaving

depths of the lake. It was the best part of a day

before he could see the solid bottom.

Quickly the one who haunted those waters,

who had scavenged and gone her gluttonous rounds

for a hundred seasons, sensed a human

observing her outlandish lair from above.”

What is the noun form of the epithet barbaric?

What is the epithet form of the noun 'dauntlessness'?

What is the noun form of the epithet 'monstrous'?

What is the noun form of the adjective valiant?

What is the epithet form of the noun implacability?

Match the following sentences to the correct slow writing sentence types.

• comparative more, more

• She lunged, grabbed, tore at his helpless figure.

• the more, the more, the more

• Even though he fought hard, every move he made seemed to make her more vengeful, more furious.

• comma sandwich

• The more he remembered his youth, the more he thought of his past glories, the more determined he became to fight alone.

• colon clarification

• Something shone through the misty waters: a sword from the gods.

• three verbs

• Beowulf, who had been swimming all day, reached the bottom.