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Literary ElementsCharacters Numbers

Who SaidIt?

Vocabulary

Literary Elements

Answer 1: “For Beowulf, the price of this last

victory will be great.”

Literary Elements

Question 1: WHAT IS FORESHADOWING?

Literary Elements

Answer 2: “And over and over they swore that

nowhere / On earth or under the spreading sky / Or between the seas, neither south nor north, / Was there a

warrior worthier to rule over men.”

Literary Elements

Question 2: WHAT IS ALLITERATION?

Literary Elements

Answer 3: “And all at once the greedy she-wolf / Who’d ruled

those waters for half a hundred / Years discovered him…”

Literary Elements

Question 3: WHAT IS A KENNING?

Literary Elements

Answer 4: “…When night had covered the earth with its net /

And the shapes of darkness moved black and silent /

Through the world.”

Literary Elements

Question 4: WHAT IS IMAGERY?

Literary Elements

Answer 5: “They could hack at Grendel / From every side, trying to open / A path for his evil soul, but

their points / Could not scratch at his skin, for that sin-stained demon /

Had bewitched all men’s weapons, laid spells / That blunted every

mortal man’s blade.”

Literary Elements

Question 5: WHAT ARE CHRISTIAN / PAGAN

ELEMENTS?

Characters

Answer 1: King of the Danes whose throne is

protected by God

Characters

Question 1: WHO IS KING HROTHGAR?

Characters

Answer 2: Beowulf’s father

Characters

Question 2: WHO IS EDGETHO?

Characters

Answer 3: Beowulf’s uncle and feudal lord

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Question 3: WHO IS HIGLAC?

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Answer 4: Wiglaf’s father

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Question 4: WHO IS WEXSTAN?

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Answer 5: The sea beast who sought revenge for

the death of her son

Characters

Question 5: WHO IS Grendel’s mother?

Numbers

Answer 1: Brave Geats that went to Denmark to

defeat Grendel

Numbers

Question 1: WHAT IS 14?

Numbers

Answer 2: The number of years Grendel terrorized

Herot Hall

Numbers

Question 2: WHAT IS 12 WINTERS/YEARS

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Answer 3: The number of years Beowulf reigned as

King of the Geats

Numbers

Question 3: WHAT IS 50?

Numbers

Answer 4: The number of battles that Beowulf fought

before his death. (Mentioned in the poem)

Numbers

Question 4: WHAT IS 3?

Numbers

Answer 5: The number of Geats that rode their

horses around Beowulf’s burial tower.

Numbers

Question 5: WHAT IS 12?

Who Said It?

Answer 1: “Let me live in greatness and courage, or here in this hall welcome

my death!”

Who Said It?

Question 1: WHO IS BEOWULF?

Who Said It?

Answer 2: “Beowulf, you’ve come to us in

friendship, and because of the reception your father

found at our court.”

Who Said It?

Question 2: WHO IS KING HROTHGAR?

Who Said It?

Answer 3: “I’ve heard that my people, peasants working in the fields, have seen a pair of such fiends wandering in

the marshes…”

Who Said It?

Question 3: WHO IS King Hrothgar?

Who Said It?

Answer 4: “Our only help, again, lies in you. Grendel’s mother is hidden in her terrible home, in a place you’ve not seen. Seek it, if you dare! Save us, once more, and again twisted gold, heaped-up ancient treasure, will reward you for the battle you

win!”

Who Said It?

Question 4: WHO IS KING HROTHGAR?

Who Said It?

Answer 5: “All of us swore to repay him, when the time came, kindness for

kindness—with our lives, if he needed them.”

Who Said It?

Question 5: WHO IS WIGLAF?

Vocabulary

Answer 1: To irritate or annoy

Vocabulary

Question 1: What is Vexed?

Vocabulary

Answer 2: Liquor made from fermented honey and

water

Vocabulary

Question 2: WHAT IS MEAD

Vocabulary

Answer 3: COMFORT OR RELIEF

Vocabulary

Question 3: WHAT IS SOLACE?

Vocabulary

Answer 4: TO RIGHT A WRONG

Vocabulary

Question 4: WHAT IS REDRESS?

Vocabulary

Answer 5: CHARMING

Vocabulary

Question 5: WHAT IS WINSOME?

Final Jeopardy Answer:

THE ONE THING THAT CAN DESTROY HEROT HALL

Final Jeopardy Question:

WHAT IS FIRE?