Anglo-Saxon Literature
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| "Venerable" means | show 🗑
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| Venerable Bede today is | show 🗑
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| Bede's parents dropped him off at the monastery at age | show 🗑
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| To explain why he never saw his family again, Bede concocted a story that | show 🗑
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| Bede spoke/wrote fluently | show 🗑
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| show | the greatest scholar of his age
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| Bede popularized the usage of | show 🗑
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| Today, BC/AD dating is often referred to as | show 🗑
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| Bede also encouraged this practice when researching a topic: | show 🗑
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| show | Caedmon
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| show | a laybrother, later a monk, at a monastery
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| Caedmon couldn't really | show 🗑
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| show | run away
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| One time Caedmon, rather than sing, escaped to a | show 🗑
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| Why did Bede use the word 'stable' instead of 'barn'? | show 🗑
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| In the stable, Caedmon dreamed or had a vision of a person who | show 🗑
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| Caedmon told his vision he couldn't | show 🗑
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| show | sing
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| show | to make a song about a Bible verse
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| show | glorify God
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| Anglo-Saxons saw all talents as | show 🗑
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| Anglo-Saxons saw Caedmon's death as | show 🗑
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| Bede's book | show 🗑
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| Bede's book was translated for us to read from the | show 🗑
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| "The Seafarer" was translated for us to read from the | show 🗑
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| How old is "The Seafarer"? | show 🗑
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| show | Unknown--part of the oral tradition
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| show | people don't change, although fashions do; society needs the caution of the elderly & the push of the young to flourish; generations still have trouble communicating
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| show | metaphor
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| A comparison using "like," "as," or "than" | show 🗑
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| show | meter
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| 4 beats in a line | show 🗑
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| Helped scops memorize material | show 🗑
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| He performed songs, jokes, stories after dinner | show 🗑
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| show | alliteration
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| modern definition of a caesura | show 🗑
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| giving human characteristics to nonhumans | show 🗑
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| a word that, when pronounced, makes the sound it names | show 🗑
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| a breathing space in a line of poetry | show 🗑
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| how many caesuras did the Anglo-Saxons have in a line of poetry? | show 🗑
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| show | lost positive
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| show | kenning
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| show | the sea
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| show | 2--the old sailor and the young one
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| show | sailor
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| Who wrote BEOWULF? | show 🗑
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| What was BEOWULF's setting? | show 🗑
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| What is an epic? | show 🗑
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| The #1 Anglo-Saxon classic | show 🗑
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| BEOWULF is this kind of poem-- | show 🗑
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| Beowulf | show 🗑
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| Hrothgar | show 🗑
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| show | is the mead hall
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| show | BEOWULF
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| Wealtheow & the water hag | show 🗑
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| show | Geats (Swedes)
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| What is ironic about BEOWULF? | show 🗑
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| show | kennings
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| Written exaggeration | show 🗑
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| show | appositives
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| show | Grendel's motivation
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| How many years did Grendel attack Herot? | show 🗑
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| show | 30
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| show | you must know the plot and content of all these
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| show | appositive
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| This summarizes "our story thus far"--to help avoid interruptions as the scop tells the tale | show 🗑
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| The elders of Beowulf's tribe | show 🗑
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| All Anglo-Saxon heroes | show 🗑
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| How many men did Beowulf take with him? | show 🗑
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| "If you can do it, it's not bragging" | show 🗑
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| When Beowulf meets Hrothgar, he gives a | show 🗑
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| show | let Hrothgar give him the job of saving the Jutes
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| What does Grendel do first the night he comes to Herot? | show 🗑
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| What does Beowulf vow to do? | show 🗑
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| What does Beowulf ask Hrothgar as a special request? | show 🗑
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| show | Send my armor, etc., back home
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| show | Bends back his claw; then crushes both claws in his hands
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| show | They try to help with their swords.
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| show | Grendel has put a spell on all weapons so they cannot hurt him.
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| How does Beowulf kill Grendel? | show 🗑
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| show | It is hung up as a war trophy.
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| Symbolic of hell, and of being an outcast | show 🗑
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| Why does Grendel's mother return to Herot? | show 🗑
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| What happens when Grendel's mother returns? | show 🗑
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| show | just 50 hours earlier, he had fought and killed Grendel
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| Why is Hrunting of no help to Beowulf in the fight with Grendel's mother? | show 🗑
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| How does Beowulf kill Grendel's mum? | show 🗑
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| With what does Beowulf kill Grendel's mum? | show 🗑
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| What trophies does Beowulf take back up to the Jutes? | show 🗑
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| show | It melted in Grendel's blood.
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| What does Beowulf do to the dead Grendel? | show 🗑
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| How do the Geats and Jutes behave at the lakeside? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote "The Wanderer"? | show 🗑
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| "The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," and BEOWULF are all part of the --? | show 🗑
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| A man alone, apparently at sea, looking for a gold-lord, friends, family | show 🗑
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| show | looking for meaning in our lives & finding a family & friends & career
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| show | "The Seafarer," "The Wanderer," and BEOWULF
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| Translated from Latin | show 🗑
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