Dr. Pharion Beowulf test.. Does not include essay – Flashcards
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The purpose of caesura in a line of anglo-saxon poetry is to
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Indicate a pause for breath
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Beowulf was transmitted orally for how many years before it was written down?
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300
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Scholars contend that literature in thw british isles began with
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Roman poets
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When used to describe beowulf, the phrase, "noble protector of all seamen" is an example of a
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Kenning
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What does the line "the monsters thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws" mean?
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He has intelligence
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For how many years does grendel lay siege to herot?
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12
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Grendel is a descendant of a
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Cain
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Beowulf says he has come to kill grendel. What proof does he offer that he is up to that task
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He eliminated giants and sea monsters
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Why does beowulf intend to fight grendel without a sword?
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He is concerned about higlacs opinion of him
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Why does Beowulf allow Grendel to slaughter one of his own men?
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He is formulating a plan of attack
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Who is the "shepherd of evil"?
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Grendel
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How does Beowulf defeat Grendel?
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Tears off his arms
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Grendel's mother returns to retrieve
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Grendel's arm
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When Beowulf dives into the watery hell, he is armed with
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Hrunting
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Grendel's mother pulls Beowulf to
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The bottom of her wet world
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What does Beowulf use to defeat Grendel's mother
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A Giants sword
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What does Beowulf bring back from the lair?
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Grendel's head and a hilt
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Beowulf rules geatland for
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Fifty
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One of beowulfs men steals a
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Sword from the dragon
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Who is the only one who helps Beowulf?
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Wiglaf
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Beowulf kills the dragon with his
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Dagger
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Beowulf's men build him a
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Tower
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Father of beowulf
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Edgetho
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King of the danes
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Hrothgar
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Father of hrothgar
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Healfdene
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The Dane's meadhall
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Herot
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King of the geats
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Higlac
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Drove away giants
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Beowulf
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Repetition of initial consonants
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Alliteration
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Pause in the middle of a line of poetry
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Caesura
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A long narrative poem
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Epic
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Clever compound word
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Kenning
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Doubts Beowulf's bravery
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Unferth
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Meeting place of the danes
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Meadhall
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Storyteller
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Scop
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Beowulf's Tribe
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Geats
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Hrothgar's tribe
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Danes
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Between 55 BC and 1066 AD England was invaded by all of the following except
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The celts
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Which does not belong in a list describing Anglo-Saxon poetry
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Iambic pentameter
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The Romans left Britain because
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Rome had fallen to barbarians
