Biritsh Literature

Question 1

In the Seafarer, where is Home?

Answer 1

The Mead Hall was home where the Warriors and Lords ate and drank.

Question 2

What was the Seafair lamenting about it

Answer 2

His loss of kinsman and friends but mainly laments about the passing of time and that everyone is gone

Question 3

What are three threats of fate in the Seafarer

Answer 3

Illness, age and enemies sword

Question 4

In the wanderer why does his lament?

Answer 4

He is lamenting about the loss of his Lord, friends, and comrades

Question 5

In the wanderer, what is his gift

Answer 5

Fortune of exile

Question 6

In the wanderer, how do you describe a wise man

Answer 6

A wise man is patient, not swift to anger, not Hasty in speech, not weak, not reckless in war, neither faithful nor fane, not wishful of wealth, not eager to vow, a brave man must wait

Question 7

In Beowulf, what makes Grendel growl in pain

Answer 7

Music and good times

Question 8

What did they beowulf have on their heads

Answer 8

Boar heads

Question 9

What is caesura

Answer 9

A break in aline. Four strong beats followed by four other beats for a total of eight beats.

Question 10

What is a Kenning

Answer 10

Two word noun that names and describes to give color.

Question 11

What is an assonance

Answer 11

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 12

What is alliteration

Answer 12

Repetition of initial or constant sounds at the beginning of words

Question 13

What is an elegy

Answer 13

A poem that is mourning the passing or death of something

Question 14

What is a biblical allusion

Answer 14

A reference to the Bible

Question 15

What is an epic

Answer 15

It is a long poem or story telling of a hero and his accomplishments. It also carries cultural characteristics of the group of people it comes from

Question 16

What is a scops

Answer 16

It is a minstrel that travels the country side singing stories. Entertainment of that era

Question 17

What is a legendary hero

Answer 17

A larger than life character who is courageous, loyal, brave, honest, strong, and has dignity. His accomplishments are celebrated

Question 18

When was the first invasion and who did it

Answer 18

It happened in 800 to 600 BC
The Celts from southern Europe invaded
Two groups came: the Brythons from France and the gaels from Ireland.

Question 19

When was the second invasion and what happened.

Answer 19

It was in 55 BC
The Romans invaded under Julius Caesar who conquered much land
100 years later then visit again. They rode Britannia for 300 years
They brought language, roads, and towns
In ADA 407, the Romans left to defend the city of Rome

Question 20

What happened in the third invasion

Answer 20

The britons were farmers and not warriors because they had Rome for their defense.
Anglo-Saxons invaded and the Britons accepted them peacefully because the Anglo-Saxons would protect them

Question 21

Who was Alfred the great

Answer 21

He was a national hero, he was the able warrior and statesman king of Wessex.
He preserved pre-Danish civilization.
He encourage learning and education.
He required all freeman for learning and literacy and he learned the Latin and translated much of Latin to English and he loved poetry.

Question 22

When was the end of the Anglo-Saxon.

Answer 22

1066 at the battle of Hastings.

Question 23

What are two categories that Anglo-Saxon poetry comes in

Answer 23

1. Heroic with Beowulf recounting the virtues of his hero.

2. Elegiac- lamentations usually of death or last past.

Question 24

How was Scandinavian/Celtic folk literature done.

Answer 24

There was no books.
All in chants and had strong religious elements.
They were reciting of stories which are in poetic form and done at ceremonial occasions.

Question 25

In Beowulf what do dragons represent

Answer 25

They represent the devil, evil, pride, and hate.

Medieval people thought evil was real and it picked it as a dragon.

Question 26

What was the Exeter book named after.

Answer 26

It was named after a town in southwest England.
Exeter was it important city. It was so important that out for the great defended it twice from the Danes.
The book was copied in 975 and given to Bishop Heofric and kept in Exeter cathedral.

Question 27

What was the Anglo-Saxon culture and society

Answer 27

They were warriors, seafarers, and they had pagan beliefs.

It was a male dominated society and they Christianized by Roman missionaries.

Question 28

Describe a messianic hero in Beowulf

Answer 28

1. Usually comes from a faraway land.
2. Descendent of someone great (Edgetho).
3. Famous lineage.
4. Dies saving someone.
5. Superhuman force
6. Stories of accomplishments.
7. Righteousness by faith is depicted at the defeat of damn, is 13 soldiers stayed with him by faith he is alive. And we’ve left stayed with him even when Beowulf was not winning.

Question 29

Beowulf/David and Goliath

Answer 29

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