Semester 2: Old English

Question 1

Theme of all sections

Answer 1

The Seafarer- The past is better than the future
The Wanderer- Everything will die eventually
The Wifes Lament- Anger and Sorrow of a women who’s husband has punished her with exile
Beowulf- You must be true and brave

Question 2

Context Clues

Answer 2

Clues that you can find in the reading to help you understand a certain word or concept

Question 3

The Seafarer

Answer 3

A sailor taking about his life on the sea and how men were no longer honest like they had been in the past

Question 4

The Wanderer

Answer 4

A man is exiled when his whole village has died and is trying to find a home

Question 5

Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry: Lyrics

Answer 5

were composed for easy memorization and recitation. A lyric poem expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker

Question 6

Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry: Regular Rhythms

Answer 6

The four strong beats in a line

Question 7

Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry: Caesuras

Answer 7

Pauses for breath in the middle of a line

Question 8

Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry: Kennings

Answer 8

Two-word poetic renmaings, like “whales’ home” for the sea

Question 9

Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry: Assonance

Answer 9

Repeated vowl sounds in unrhymed, stressed syllables

Question 10

Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry: Aliteration

Answer 10

Repeated inital consonants sound in stressed syllables

Question 11

Elegy

Answer 11

A poem mourning the loss of someone or something

Question 12

Anglo-Saxons and the concept of exile

Answer 12

• Exile is the separation from a rembered home
• It could be force upon or chossen
• It is a horrible punishment because kinsmenship ment everything to these people
• Christain monks also realted it to the exile of Adam and Eve

Question 13

Anglo-Saxson and gender euquality

Answer 13

-Women still heavily relied on men to protect them and proved for them

Question 14

Anglo-Saxon life and the idea of fate

Answer 14

Fate was a predestined plan of how a person’s life would play out. What was going to happen was going to happen and nothing could stop it

Question 15

Quality of historical writing from the Anglo-Saxon era

Answer 15

• Is a great way to learn about history but is bais based on the views of the Anglo-Saxon people
• Many people have added to to story
• Monks
• other story tellers
• pieces lost in time

Question 16

The concept of reconizing historical context in order to understand writings form the Anglo Saxon time period

Answer 16

The author must reconized the hisotry of the people to understand why certian events and objects were so important

Question 17

What is the relationship between place and literature

Answer 17

• A place will tell the important becasue it will effect the story and show the importatnce of the land around them
• The sea

Question 18

Beowulf selections

Answer 18

There are three sections to beowulf

1. Where he battles Grendal
2. Where he battles Grendal’s mother
3. When he battles a dragon

Question 19

The Anglo-Saxson concept of legendary hero

Answer 19

A larger than life character who does amazing things and acts with the times virutes and standerds. ( Loyalty, bravery, honor)

Question 20

Characterisitc of an epic: Epic

Answer 20

a long narrative poem that recounts the adventure of a legendary hero in pursuit of a goal of national importantce

Question 21

Characterisitc of an epic: Epic hero

Answer 21

The epic heo is the central character of an epic. This perosn is larger than life, typically of noble or semidive brith, who puts his courage skills, and virues against oppsoing, often evil, forces

Question 22

Characterisitc of an epic: Quest

Answer 22

A long, dangerous journey or mission undertaken by the epic hero. The quest gives the hero an opportunity to prove his heroism and win honor and undying renown

Question 23

Characterisitc of an epic: Valorous deeds

Answer 23

Actions demostrate the hero’s courage, strenght, or virute and make up most of hte action in the narrative

Question 24

Characterisitc of an epic: Divine intervention

Answer 24

The hero will recieves help from a god of another superanturla force who takes interest in his quest

Question 25

Characterisitc of an epic: Great events

Answer 25

Important events form the history of nythology of a nation or culture often provide, the thems and backdrop of the epic narrative

Question 26

Characterisitc of an epic: Folk events

Answer 26

In ancient times, stories about herose were recited or sung as entertainment and passed down orally from one generation to the next. These stories were eventually unified into folk epics and written down long after they were first composed

Question 27

Characterisitc of an epic: Literary epics

Answer 27

Literatrcy epics are written by individual authors, drawing on the style and conventions of the folk epic

Question 28

Characterisitc of an epic: Three epic conventions

Answer 28

This is when epics share certian literary of formal characteristics

1. An epic opens by stationg the subject or purpose, followed by an invocation of a muse or supernatural force who would help tell the story
2. The polt beings in media res- In the middle of the story or action
3. Most epics are seous in tone and lofty in style, a technique meant to convey the importance of the event. Long speeches by the characters suggest an impressive formaily, as do the list of battles, weapons, and royal gifts

Question 29

Paraphrasing

Answer 29

identify the key details and restate them in your own words

Question 30

Summarizing Main Idea

Answer 30

To shorten the story to the main point or ideas.

Beowulf main idea was to be a might brave leader who would fight till the end for his peopel and honor

Question 31

How the themes of Beowulf apply to life today

Answer 31

-A person must be brave and loyal to there people and ideas

Question 32

The Anglo-Saxon concept of achieving immortality through fame and glory

Answer 32

-They belived that if a person achieved fame and glory though actions thier stories woul be passed on forever and they woul be immortal.

Question 33

How does literature shape or reflect society

Answer 33

The works explain what was considered tolerabel in scoiety and what one must do to be considered an e

Question 34

How did Fate mixed with Christianity

Answer 34

• Fate was an old pagan belief that many Anglo-Saxons belived in
  
  • Fate was the belief that everything was already planed out in life
• Chirstianity was the reglious belief in God who is the ruler and master of all.
• Theses two ideas mixed during the middle ages when cultures in Enlgand were mixing and becoming one