Chapter 1 Flashcards
(23 cards)
The Danes are being assaulted by Grendel because of the sin of
Pride
William the conquerer is best describes as
Severe
Grendel is the offspring of
Cain
How does beowulf mortally wound Grendel
Tearing off his arm
Where does beowulf battle Grendel
In the Mede hall
Who does Grendel kill and devour
One of beowulfs sleeping companions
The Middle Ages was a period of
Constant dynamic change
Humor is in the form of _____ or ______ in old English poetry
Irony or riddles
What were the common forms of humor
irony, alliteration, and variation
He was a Benedictine monk who wrote on many subjects and sought to chart the spread of Christianity
Bede
I the “conversion of Edward” the three basic philosophical questions alluded to by Edwin’s more spiritually astute counselor deal with the subjects of _____, _______ and ______
Origin, meaning, and destiny
The recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables, as in “lively lads and lasses.”
Alliteration
The giving of personal character- istics to something that is not a person.
Personification
the repetition of an idea in different words with the same grammatical form. When variation is done well, its effect is one not of redundancy but of cumulative characterization.
Variation
Wandering minstrels
Scop
long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the
deeds of a national or ethnic hero. The folk epic re- flects the customs, rituals, and ideals of a tribal soci- ety and stems from an oral tradition
Epic
A break between words within a metrical foot
Caesura
Often exists more as a display of technical skill than as a vehicle of deep personal feeling
Lyric poetry
Intended to teach or instruct
Didactic
A lyric poem honoring the dead or meditating on death
Elegy/eligiac poetry
the expression of an idea in a roundabout. more ele- gant way.
Periphrastic epithet
metaphoric compound of two words, such as whalepath for sea.
Kenning
A category of artistic composition
Genre
