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Unit 1 Test

Mrs. Dingess's English 12

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Who held an elevated status? (Equal to warriors) Poets and Bards
What was the only way for pagans to achieve immortality? Perform great deed that were retold by poets
What was the Exeter book? Anthology of Anglo Saxon poetry
What is the largest collection of Old English Literature in existence? The Exeter book
What is the Book of Kells? Latin religious text
What major section of the Bible does the Book of Kells contain? The 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) (The birth, life, death, and resurrection of christ)
What is the relevance of the Mead Hall in Old English Literature? Gathering place for celebrations, storytelling, safety and shelter, and community discussion
What eventually provided a place for learning and recording poems? Christian monasteries
What are 3 examples of Elegies? The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and the Wife's Lament
What is an elegy? A mournful, melancholic, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead
What does melancholic mean? Depressing
What does plaintive mean? Expressive of suffering or woe
What does lament mean? To mourn aloud
What is an allegory? Characters, settings, and events stand for abstract moral concepts
What is an archetype? Perfect example
What are some characteristics of an epic hero? Honor, courage/bravery, great strength, must prove himself in battle, accomplishes great deeds for his people, embodies the ideals of his people, and a strong sense of duty to the king and his people
What are some characteristics of an epic? Long narrative poem, invokes a muse or deity, begins in medias res (the middle of things), supernatural forces, main figure is an epic hero on grand quest or journey, and it mixes myth, legend, and history
What is Wyrd? Fate
What is Wergild? Payment for death
What is comitatus? Reciprocal relationship between warriors and kings of respect, loyalty, friendship, and generosity
What are foils? Characters that serve as a contrast to one another
What are kennings? Compound metaphor (ring-giver, whale-road)
What type of poem is "The Iliad?" Greek Epic
Who is Achilles? Epic hero for the Greeks
Who is Hector? Epic hero for the Trojans
What is an epic simile? Comparisons that extend over many lines
What is hubris? Excessive pride or anger
What is Arete? Personal honor
What is Moira? Fate
Identify three images related to weather in the first stanza? Icy bands, frozen chains, and winter on an ice-cold sea.
What does each of the three weather related images convey about the speaker's experiences at sea? Each image conveys how miserable living at sea is
What causes the speaker's heart to begin to beat? The salty waves
How can someone dislike something as much as the seafarer dislikes the sea and yet be drawn to it? The thrill of the adventure and travel
What is the seafarer's response to "harps," "rewards," "passion," and the other pleasures of life? They are wonderful, but have no meaning to him
Judging from his response to these things, explain whether he is more attached to life on land than he is to life at sea? Life at sea because the "salty waves" cause his heart to begin to beat
What does the speaker mean when he says in lines 58-61 "And yet my heart wanders away,/My soul roams with the sea,.../.../...returning ravenous with desire..."? He is excited to be at sea again
Is the speaker fully at home on land, on the sea, or in neither place? The speaker is never satisfied when he is at home or at sea. When he's home he longs to be at sea and when he's at sea he is miserable and longs for home
According to the last section of the poem, where is our home? Heaven
Explain the connection between the poem's concluding message and its depiction of the Seafarer's wandering existence? His ideas suggest that life on Earth isn't nearly as important as heaven
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