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Question 1

• Good defeats evil
• Wergild–restitution for murder or
  expect revenge from victim’s relatives

Answer 1

Anglo-Saxon Ideals and
Codes of Conduct

Question 2

Long narrative poem that recounts the
adventures of a hero.

• Elevated language

Answer 2

Epic Poem

Question 3

Chant-like effect of the four-beat line

• Alliteration (“Then the grim man in
  green gathers his strength”)

Answer 3

Elements of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Question 4

meaning of Thane?
a. a warrior
b.the king
c. a prince

Answer 4

a. a warrior

Question 5

The large hall where the lord and his warriors
slept, ate, held ceremonies, etc.

Answer 5

mead-hall

Question 6

Fate. Destiny. This idea crops up a lot
in the poem, while at the same time
there are Christian references to God’s
will.
a. bible
b. free poem
c. wyrd

Answer 6

c. wyrd

Question 7

Epic hero
* Geat (from southern Sweden)
* Nephew of Higlac (King at
story’s start)

Answer 7

Beowulf

Question 8

• Danish king
• Builds Herot (banquet hall) for
  men

Answer 8

Hrothgar

Question 9

• Referred to as demon and
  fiend
• Haunts the moors (swampy
  land)

Answer 9

Grendel

Question 10

• Referred to as she-wolf
• Lives under a lake

a. grendell
b.hrothgar
c. grendell’s mother

Answer 10

c grendell’s mother

Question 11

• Lives in Beowulf’s kingdom
• Wakes up when thief steals
  cup

Answer 11

Fire Dragon

Question 12

TYPES OF LYRIC POETRY

Answer 12

• Sonnet
• Ode
• Ballad
• Elegy
• Villanelle
• Idyll
• Free Verse

Question 13

Named after an ancient Greek poet, Pindar.
Choral poems that were meant to be sung at public events.

Answer 13

Pindar Ode

Question 14

Named after Latin poet, Horace.
Informal, meditative, and intimate
Dwelled upon interesting subject matters that were simple and were pleasing to the senses.

Answer 14

horatian ode

Question 15

Without any formal rhyme scheme
Poet has great freedom and flexibility to try any types of concepts and moods.

Answer 15

Irregular Ode

Question 16

• Traditionally divided into three (3) sections or stanzas.

Answer 16

Structure of Ode

Question 17

Usually consists of two or more lines repeated as a unit.
In modern usage, the term can refer to any group of verses that form a distinct unit within a poem.

Answer 17

strophe

Question 18

Structured the same way as the strophe.
But typically offers a thematic counterbalance.

Answer 18

Antistrophe

Question 19

Has a distinct meter and length from the strophe and antistrophe
Serves to summarize or conclude the ideas of the ode.

Answer 19

epode

Question 20

A type of poetry or verse which was basically used in dance songs in ancient France.

Answer 20

Ballad

Question 20

Recurrence of certain lines at regular intervals
Can also be in interrogative form, with appropriate answers to every question asked.

Answer 20

structure of ballad

Question 21

Begins with an expression of grief and an invocation to the Muse (inspirational goddess of literature) to aid the poet in expressing his suffering.

Answer 21

pastoral elegy

Question 22

• Derived from the Greek work elegus, which means a song of bereavement sung along with a flute.

Answer 22

elegy

Question 23

From Italian word “villano” which means peasant
Like the Italian and Spanish dance-songs, “villanella” and “villancico”, spoke of simple, often pastoral or rustic themes.

Answer 23

VILLANELLE

Question 24

Made up of five tercets (stanzas of three lines) followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains and couplet at the end of the quatrain

Answer 24

structure of villanelle

Question 25

From Greek eidyllion which means “little picture” A short poem of a pastoral or rural character in which something of the element of landscape is depicted or suggested.

Answer 25

idyll

Question 26

A very structured type of poetry in which the author attempts to show two related but differing things to the reader in order to communicate something about them.

Answer 26

sonnet

Question 27

Distinguished by its division into the octave and sestet: The octave rhyming abbaabba The sestet rhyming cdecde, cdcdcd, or cdedce

Answer 27

Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan)

Question 28

Also called vers libre in French Free from limitations of regular meter or rhyme, and does not rhyme with fixed forms

Answer 28

FREE VERSE POEMS

Question 29

The Spenserian sonnet, invented by Edmund Spenser, complicates the Shakespearean form, linking rhymes among the quatrains: * Abab bcbc cdcd ee

Answer 29

Spenserian

Question 30

Three quatrains (stanzas of four lines each) Each with a rhyme scheme of its own, usually rhyming alternating lines And a rhymed concluding couplet The typical rhyme scheme is *Abab cdcd efef gg

Answer 30

English Sonnet (Shakesperean)