Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
72 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Kenning
|
Riddling metaphor
|
|
|
Alliterative verse
|
Has the same first consanent sound
|
|
|
Scop
|
Oral poets
|
|
|
Caesura
|
A pause between text
|
|
|
Hyperbole
|
An exaggeration for emphasis
|
|
|
Verbal irony
|
Iron which is spoken by the character Ex: death is dead
|
|
|
Situational irony
|
Irony when the story takes a completely different turn from the expected
|
|
|
Dramatic irony
|
Irony when the audience knows something the characters don't
|
|
|
Medival Romance
|
Includes code of chivalry, courtley love, idealized hero, a journey, light hearted tone, and a faraway setting,
|
|
|
What is the main reason that Gawain seeks out the Green Knight after their first encounter?
|
He has given the Green Knight his word
|
|
|
What are the 5 points of Gawain's pentangle?
|
5 fingers, 5 senses, 5 joys of mary, 5 inguries Jesus recieves on the cross, and the 5 knightlyhoods
|
|
|
By what name is the Gawain poet known?
|
The pearl poet
|
|
|
The Green knight says that Morgana sent him to Arthur's castle for what purpose?
|
To test the virtue of Arthur's Knights and hoping that the beheading of the Green Knight would scare Guenevere to death.
|
|
|
What was the real reason that the lady offers Gawain the green scarf?
|
To tempt him
|
|
|
What is results from Gawain's keeping the green scarf a secret from the lord?
|
The Green Knight's third blow nicks Gawain's neck
|
|
|
How does Gawain break his bargin with the lord?
|
By lying to the lord about taking the green scarf
|
|
|
The Green Knight gives the green scarf to Gawain to
|
Reward him
|
|
|
To Gawain the green scarf represents what?
|
His sins
|
|
|
The Green Knight enters King Arthur's court carying
|
A holly branch and an axe.
|
|
|
Gawain's story concludes with
|
His return to Camelot
|
|
|
What are the 3 game that the lord hunts?
|
Deer, Boar head, and Fox
|
|
|
What does Gawaine give in return?
|
a total of 6 kisses
(1 the first hunt, 2 the second, and three the third) |
|
|
What is the setting of Sir Gawaine an the
Green Night? |
New year's eve at Camelot
|
|
|
What is the game the knight proposes?
|
In a year and one day Sir Gawaine must come to the Green Chapel and let the the Green night swing the ax at him.
|
|
|
The knight mocks the court for being afraid of what?
|
Words
|
|
|
The Bob and Wheel does what?
|
Provides comentary on what has already happened, creates or fufills moments of suspense, serves as a transition to the next scene or idea.
|
|
|
"Sea weary soul" is what?
|
Kenning
|
|
|
Hrothgar
|
King of the Danes
|
|
|
Higlac
|
King of the Geats early in beowulf
|
|
|
Wyrd
|
Fate
|
|
|
His name is used in an attempt to discredit Beowulf
|
Brecca
|
|
|
Hrothgar's queen
|
Welthow
|
|
|
People who need help in fighting Grendel
|
Danes
|
|
|
Beowulf's young kinsman and steadfast supporter
|
Wiglaf
|
|
|
Father of Beowulf
|
Edgetho
|
|
|
Residents of an area in now modern-day Sweden
|
Geats
|
|
|
Hrothgar's battle hall
|
Herot
|
|
|
Sword that breaks to pieces against the dragon
|
Nagling
|
|
|
The weapon borrowed from Unferth
|
Hrunting
|
|
|
A Danish warrior who is at first envious of Beowulf
|
Unferth
|
|
|
Descendant of Cain
|
Grendel
|
|
|
Leader of the last successful invasion of Britain in 1066
|
William
|
|
|
Roman general who brought Britain into recorded history
|
Julius Caesar
|
|
|
Priests who presserved the oral tradition of learning and literature in Britain
|
Druids
|
|
|
Gold given by a king to the survivors of a slain warrior
|
Wergild
|
|
|
Arrogant, violent woman who is "tammed" by Offa
|
Thrith
|
|
|
Believes that lasting fame is of the utmost imporance
|
Beowulf
|
|
|
Believes those who desert thier leader would be better off dead
|
Wiglaf
|
|
|
Believes Denmark's future security is certaint
|
Welthow
|
|
|
Believes the king's death means war for the Geats
|
Messenger
|
|
|
Believes Beowulf's fame is overrated
|
Unfeth
|
|
|
Believes a king must gaurd against excessive pride
|
Hrothgar
|
|
|
Beowulf is...
|
A Geatish warrior
|
|
|
Upon meeting Beowulf, Unfeth does what?
|
Challenges Beowulf's reputation
|
|
|
On the night of Beowulf's arrival what does Grendal do?
|
Kill one of Beowulf's warriors
|
|
|
Where does Beowulf fight Grendel's mother?
|
In a hall at the bottom of a lake
|
|
|
Who is Beowulf's apparent successor?
|
Wiglaf
|
|
|
Beowulf dies because...
|
He is fatally wounded in his fight with the dragon
|
|
|
Foreshadowing
|
An event or story that hints to what might happen later (Ex. story of Sigmund foreshadows Beowulf's success
|
|
|
Stock epithet
|
a metaphor the replaces a noun (Ex. Swift-footed achillies)
|
|
|
In the Lord of the Flies the Conch represents...
|
Government, order, civiliztion
|
|
|
Fire represents...
|
Home, rescure, comfort and hope but also becomes a destructive force
|
|
|
Sow's Head represents...
|
Lord of the flies, traslation of the greek "Beelzebub" both are synonyms for the devil
|
|
|
Ralph represents...
|
SEnse and order, rational and logical, thought assembly, and debate. Civilzed ethic behavior but also the thinly veiled savagery in all humans
|
|
|
Jack represents...
|
anarchy and uncontrolled savagery
|
|
|
Piggy represents...
|
Intellectual power and insight gained through observation
|
|
|
Simon represents...
|
Intuative insight, self awareness and hsi death is the begining of the end of civilization
|
|
|
Biguns represent...
|
The unthinking masses who blindly follow whoever is in charge
|
|
|
Littleuns represent...
|
The innocents who are often unaffected by larger issues
|
|
|
Roger represents...
|
Cruelty and sadism
|
|
|
Samneric represent...
|
Those who are not strong enough to defend and maintain their convictions
|
|
|
Ironies in the Lord of the Flies include...
|
virtual paradice becomes the setting of a muder, EArly on Jack says the boys are "not savages" yet he is the first to become one,we know waht the "beast is but the boys dont, and simon hopes to help the boys with the truth, but becomes the beast and is killed.
|
