WorksheetsBeowulf—Part Deux
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
"Like Icarus, he flew too close to the sun" is an example of what type of literary device?
Allusion
Alliteration
Synecdoche
Repetition
"Sung/Of the ancient beginnings of us all, recalling/The Almighty making the earth" is an allusion to what?
Nature's Fury
The Rainforest Cafe
The Book of Genesis from The Bible
The Big Bang Theory
In the line, "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world," what type of figurative language is "yawp."
Animal magnetism
Allusion
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
"Big Brother is watching you" alludes (refers) to what idea?
Your creepy brother hovering over you in the night
A free and democratic society
That some organization or government entity is spying on regular citizens.
The long-running TV show
Why do Beowulf and his followers' swords not work on Grendel and his mother?
The swords have been bewitched by the monsters
The swords are old and dull
The swords are actually toy light sabers
The men are too weak to lift the swords.
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" contains what type of figurative language in the first line.
Sentimentalism
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
In what modern country is Beowulf set (who does Beowulf go to help)?
Greece
Denmark
Italy
England
What historical era does Beowulf represent?
The Renaissance
Norman Conquest
The Peak of the Roman Empire
Anglo-Saxon England
"The iron sang its fierce song" is an example of what?
Personification
Musicality
Metallurgy
Discord
"My father/Was a famous soldier, known far and wide/As a leader of men" is an example of what epic hero trait?
Hating one's father
Proving to why one's father is important and worthy of being remembered.
Pointing to where one got his looks.
