What are Kennings? |
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compound nouns, possessive or genitive |
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Literary Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon Epic poetry? |
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Alliteration, Caesura, Kennings, formal rigid pattern of word stresses |
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What is a stock epithet? |
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Adjective/phrase expressing some quality or attribute that is characteristic of a person/thing |
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Father of English history? |
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Bede |
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Witan |
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a council of elders |
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Anglo-Saxon word for fate |
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Wyrd |
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What type of poem is Beowulf? |
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Epic poem |
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Characteristics of Epic poems |
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long, lots of events, main heroic character, catastrophic events, serious themes |
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King of Danes? |
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Hrothgar |
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Who is Grendel descended from? |
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Cain |
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What are some of the special characters in Anglo-Saxon language? |
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Thorn, Eth & Ash |
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What is a grapheme? |
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a character in the alphabet |
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Phoneme |
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a sound in language, simplest element of language |
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digraph |
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a pair of letters representing a single sound |
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What is a wergild? |
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man-price |
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Grendel does not touch Hrothgar's throne b/c it is |
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protected by God |
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How many set out to Herot? |
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14 |
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Who is Beowulf's father? |
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Edgethto |
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How does Beowulf fight Grendel? |
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With bare hands |
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Who is Hrothgar's queen? |
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Welthow |
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What is Beowulf's proof of defeating Grendel? |
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he had his arm |
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What two folklore are told? |
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Siegmund & Nermod |
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What is the final revenge inflicted on Grendel? |
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they cut off his head |
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What is stolen from the dragon? |
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A jeweled cup |
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How does the dragon take revenge on the town? |
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it attacks and burns homes |
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Who is the only geat that remained with Beowulf? |
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Wiglaf |
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What month does Canterbury Tales begin in? |
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April |
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How many people go on the pilgrimage? |
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29 |
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Where do they begin their pilgrimage? |
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@ The Tabard |
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How many tales will each pilgrim tell? |
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4 |
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What is the prize for best story? |
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supper, paid by all |
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Who is the 1st to tell a tale? |
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The Knight |
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Who tells the story about the rooster and hen? |
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The Nun's Priest |
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What is the rooster's name? |
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Chanticleer |
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How many hens are there? |
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7 |
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Who is the hen that holds Chanticleer's heart? |
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Lady Pertelote |
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What style is the Nun's Priest's story told in? |
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Mock-Heroic style |
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What is an exemplum? |
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a longer anecdote with a sermon |
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What are some of the allusions Chanticleer makes? |
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Joseph, Lord Pharaoh, The Book of David |
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What are the four humors? |
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Yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, blood |
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too much blood |
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sanguine |
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too much yellow bile |
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choleric |
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too much phlegm |
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phlegmatic |
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too much black bile |
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melancholic |
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characteristics of sanguine |
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courageous, arrogant, loves to entertain, amorous |
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characteristics of choleric |
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doer, leader, easily tempered, passionate |
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characteristics of phlegmatic |
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calm, lazy, rational, observant |
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characteristics of melancholic |
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sleepless, irritable, perfectionist, creative |
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