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JEOPARDY SLIDES
It wouldn’t let me upload the game in its original format, but he’s the questions and
answers we used in our class jeopardy
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
ALLITERATIONA 100
A comparison that is extended throughout an entire stanza or poem
Extended Metaphor
A 200
whale-road or bone-house are examples of a _________
KENNING
A 400
A 500
To err is human // To forgive is divine
CAESURA
The monster who fights Beowulf
GRENDEL
B 100
The king of the Danes who asks Beowulf to help his people
HROTHGAR
B 200
The queen of the Ancient Britons
BOUDDICA
B 300
The Britons were led by this Christian Celtic commander and his brave knights to restore honor and chivalry
KING ARTHUR
B 400
Great powerful king in the eighth century who defeated the Danes (Vikings) and converted them to Christianity
ALFRED THE GREAT
B 500
Actions of the hero determine the _______ of the nation
FATE
C 100
The setting is __________ and often involves more than one nation.
VAST
C 200
Plot is often complicated by ____________ events
SUPERNATURAL
C 300
C 400
HERO IS OF __________ BIRTH
Noble or high
Poem has a __________ theme, such as good and evil or life and death
UNIVERSAL
C 500
This was the religion that had spread throughout Britain by the year A.D. 690
CHRISTIANITYD 100
This phenomenon spread along with Christianity in Britain so that people could read religious texts
LITERACYD 200
A long narrative poem that celebrates a hero’s deeds
EPIC
D 300
Men who publicly performed orally poetry
SCOPS or BARDS
D 400
Beowulf’s third and final battle is against ___________
DRAGON
E 100
Beowulf is so confident that he can defeat Grendel that he decides to fight _____________
Unarmed or without weapons
E 200
After defeating Grendel, he hangs up his ________ in the mead hall as a trophy
ARME 300
The dragon is angry with the Geats because this crime is committed against him
ROBBERY of golden gobletE 400
The only one of Beowulf’s warriors to stay loyal to the end was __________
WIGLAFE 500
Beowulf’s second battle is against _________
GRENDEL’S MOTHER
F 100
The author of Beowulf is _______
UNKNOWN
F 200
The language Beowulf was written in was ___________
Old English or Anglo-Saxon
F 300
This is the number of years that pass between Beowulf’s battle with Grendel’s mother and his battle with the dragon
50
F 400
Grendel is a descendent of __________
CAIN
F 500