British Lit.: Beowulf Exam Study Guide

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is a complete stop in a line of poetry

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caesura

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commonly a simple stock compound such as “whale-path” or “swan road” for “sea,” “God’s beacon” for “sun,” or “ring-giver” for “king

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Kennings

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refers to the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases

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Alliteration

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was a value placed on every human being and every piece of property

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Wergild

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is a form of magic in which the practitioner seeks to summon the spirit of a deceased person

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Necromancy

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is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words

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appositive

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the first epic poem in the English language

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beowulf

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Author of beowulf

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author unknown

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how was beowulf passed down

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through word of mouth

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composed when

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mid- seventh cent. and the end of the tenth cent.

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showed traditional themes and legends of which culture

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Germanic culture

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setting of poetry
and when?

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mainly in Denmark and Geatland
sixth cent.

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idea warrior of the Geats and the hero of the poem

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beowulf

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a fire- breathing, snake- like monster that terrorizes the Geats

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Dragon

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a monster with human qualities that terrorizes Herot

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Grendel

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a monster that also terrorizes herot

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Grendel's mother

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Danish king and builder of herot

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hrothgar

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king of the Geats and uncle of Beowulf Shild, legendary king of the Danes and great grandfather of Hrothgar

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Higlac

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a warrior in Hrothgar;s court who challenges beowulfs bravery

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Unferth

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Hrothgar's wife

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welthow

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a young warrior and relative of beowulf

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wiglaf

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belief that fate ruled a person's life

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wyrd

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Lord of the rings, labyrinth, mulan, willow, harry potter, neverending story, the wixard of oz, beauty and the beast, crouching tiger, hidden tiger, hidden dragon

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fantasy

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star wars, e.t, the matrix, mad max, back to the future, cocoon, stargate

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science fiction

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3 musketeers, henry v, robin hood, excalibur, the name of the rose, gladiator, first knight, braveheart

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heroes of yore

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Indiana jones, crocodile dundee, casablanca, james bond

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Romantic hero

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pale rider, shane, dances with wolves, youn guns, a man called horse, hang 'em high, true grit, stage coach

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westerns

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apocolypse now,platoon, when we were soldiers, black hawk down, the patriot, the red thin line

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war

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rambo, dirty harry, terminator, cobra, death wish, die hard

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modern vigilantes

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midnight cowboy, karate id, the waterboy, jaws, rebel without a cause, the graduate, bethune, thelma and louise, finding forrester

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urban hero

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batman, x-men, superman, spiderman

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superheroes

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800- 600 BC
both of the two groups that invaded the Birtish isles

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Celtics

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one of the celtic groups that settled on the largest british island

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Brythons

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one of the celtic groups that settled on the second laergest island

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Gaels

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main job of the celtics

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farmers and hunters

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class of priests that settled disputes between clans

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Druids

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conquerors of Britian in 55 bc
that ruled 300 years

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Romans

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emerged christianity when they invaded
originally from Germany

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Anglo- Saxons

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occupation of anglo saxons

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deep sea fishermen
farmers or rich soil seekers

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north men
invaded in the 9th cent.

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the danes and norse

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near a seaside village in southern england harold was killed and william emerged victorious

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Battle of the hastings

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saxon lit.
written or oral

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oral

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two categories and examples
of saxon literature

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heroic poetry(recounting the achievements of warrior) and elegiac poetry (lamenting deaths of loved ones and lost of the past)

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composed in what language before alfred the great

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Latin

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transcribed the latin works

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monks

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the greatest England's Latin scholars

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The vererable bede

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the name given to a group of historical journals written compiled in monesteries

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The Anglo- Saxon Chronicles

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two categories of lyric poems

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secular and religious

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a fold song that told a story

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ballads

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the earliest dramas that retold stories from the bible or dealt withe the aspects

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Miracle or mystery plays

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depicted the live of saints
rose during the 15th cent.

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Morality plays

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perfected a process of movable printing from movable type

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john gutrnburg

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set up the first movable type press

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William Cantin