Beowulf Study Guide
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| How can the reader tell that Beowulf is a legendary story? | show 🗑
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| Why does Beowulf sail with his chosen companions to Hrothgar's kingdom? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following line from Beowulf contains an example of kenning? | show 🗑
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| From which fact can the reader infer that Beowulf is honorable? | show 🗑
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| What does this line mean? the monster's thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws. | show 🗑
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| show | God's power.
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| show | Valor will triumph.
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| Which is the best paraphrase of the following passage from the poem? So the living sorrow of Healfdane's son/ Simmered, bitter and fresh, and no wisdom/ Or strength could break it: that agony hung/ On king and people alike... | show 🗑
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| Wiglaf thinks he and his comrades should help Beowulf fight the dragon because | show 🗑
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| show | Beowulf is passing on the rulership of Geatland to Wiglaf.
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| Which of the following lines from Beowulf comtains an example of a caesura? | show 🗑
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| show | Beowulf's bloody sword became liquid the way ice and frost do when God warms and melts them.
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| show | Most of the Geats had deserted him in battle.
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| Which phrase best paraphrases the underlined words in this quotation from the poem? ...they could hack at Grendel/ From every side, trying to open/ A path for his evil soul, but their points Could not hurt him. | show 🗑
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| show | a kenning.
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| show | reparaion(payback)
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| show | cleanse.
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| show | "...sailors/ Have brought us stories of Herot, the best/ Of all mead-halls, deserted and useless..."
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| Which words from the following passage form an appositive phrase? ...A deer,/ Hunted through the woods by packs of hounds,/ A stag with great horns, though driven through the forest/ From faraway places, prefers to die/ On those shores,... | show 🗑
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| Which of these words best fits the image of the dragon presented in this quotation? ...The dragon/ Coiled and uncoiled, its heart urging it/ Into battle... | show 🗑
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