Ch. 1: The Old English Period

Question 1

Who is illiterate?

Answer 1

Caedmon

Question 2

How is Sparrow is a metaphor?

Answer 2

metaphor for man’s life is short, brevity.

Question 3

3 philosophical questions from Bede

Answer 3

Origin
Meaning if life
Destiny.

Question 4

What is the message of Caedmon’s Hymn?

Answer 4

Talking about creation

Question 5

The earliest surviving English poem

Answer 5

Caedmon’s Hymn

Question 6

a long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national hero

Answer 6

Epic

Question 7

Types of Epics

Answer 7

Folk and literary

Question 8

concerned with teaching

Answer 8

Didactic

Question 9

Heroic virtues of Beowulf

Answer 9

Fortitude, prudence, loyalty, and generosity

Question 10

offspring of Cain, is there to rebuke the danes for their pride

Answer 10

Grendel

Question 11

starts and ends funeral of a king

Answer 11

Circular structure

Question 12

Theme of Beowulf

Answer 12

the continuance of civilization requires virtuous heroes

Question 13

How does Beowulf kill Grendel?

Answer 13

by ripping his arm off

Question 14

fate

Answer 14

Wyrd

Question 15

People in Beowulf had a ?

Answer 15

pride issue

Question 16

Answers to the 4 riddles

Answer 16

a shield, resigned to it’s fate of getting beat up. a bookworm, a weather cock, iceberg . Water can be a blessing and a curse

Question 17

Riddles 1 and 3 are ?

Answer 17

monologues

Question 18

Written during reign of Alfred

Written about Edmund

Answer 18

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Question 19

army

Answer 19

Fyrd

Question 20

Who invented the term Dark Ages to describe the medieval period, and why?

Answer 20

18th century rationalists. Catholic Church spreading

Question 21

The most accurate assessment of the idle ages is that the period was not a static era, but a time of ?

Answer 21

Constant, dynamic change

Question 22

What did England receive from the Norman Conquest of 1066?

Answer 22

New nobility and strongly futile administration

Question 23

After the Norman Conquest of 1066, political change occurred how?

Answer 23

Gradually and from within

Question 24

Which language’s impact on Old English is most apparent in ordinary speech and in grammatical influence?

Answer 24

Scandinavian

Question 25

What became the language of the ruling class and business after the Norman invasion?

Answer 25

French

Question 26

What made Old English a written as well as spoken language?

Answer 26

The intro of the Latin alphabet

Question 27

What became the language not only of the church but of scholarship and diplomacy?

Answer 27

Latin

Question 28

Transmission of Old English to ?

Answer 28

West Saxon

Question 29

Alliteration, variation, and ? all commonly used in Old English poetry

Answer 29

Repetition

Question 30

Humor in Old English poetry evidenced itself in what 2 forms?

Answer 30

Irony and riddles

Question 31

a metaphoric compound of two words, such as whalepath for sea.

Answer 31

Kenning