Test 1: The Searfarer & The Wanderer

Question 1

assigned; committed

Answer 1

consigned

Question 2

the repetition of consonant sounds in successive words

Answer 2

alliteration

Question 3

dwelling places; residences

Answer 3

habitations

Question 4

traveling storytellers (bards, minstrels) who memorized and passed along an oral tradition of stories and songs, usually celebrating the deeds of a hero

Answer 4

scops

Question 5

trivial; unimportant

Answer 5

trifling

Question 6

central to the Anglo-Saxon tribe’s community and social life

Answer 6

mead-hall

Question 7

a sustained, formal poem that mourns the loss of someone or something; a lament or sadly meditative poem on a solemn theme

Answer 7

elegy

Question 8

deprived of or lacking

Answer 8

bereft

Question 9

someone or something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner

Answer 9

harbinger

Question 10

merriment; amusement

Answer 10

mirth

Question 11

a figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), an abstract quality, or a non-existent personage is addressed as though present

Answer 11

apostrophe

Question 12

to praise enthusiastically; to exalt

Answer 12

extol

Question 13

the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases, or clauses

Answer 13

anaphora

Question 14

lonely; empty; abandoned

Answer 14

desolate

Question 15

great waves or surges of water

Answer 15

billows

Question 16

brave and persistent

Answer 16

doughty

Question 17

a two-word metaphoric word or phrase that takes the place of a noun; example: “whale-road” for sea

Answer 17

kenning

Question 18

chains; restricts

Answer 18

fetters

Question 19

a profoundly wise man

Answer 19

sage

Question 20

the particular words used in a work; word choice

Answer 20

diction

Question 21

pale; weak

Answer 21

wan

Question 22

presented; conferred

Answer 22

bestowed

Question 23

to feel or show fear or apprehension

Answer 23

quail

Question 24

a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker

Answer 24

lyric

Question 25

characteristic of the Germanic mind

Answer 25

brooding melancholy

Question 26

“the Wanderer” is a lyrical expression of a ___ who has lost his lord, his kinsmen, and his friend in a disastrous war.

Answer 26

warrior or bard

Question 27

the beginning in England of a literature of the sea

Answer 27

“The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and voyages in Beowulf

Question 28

The Seafarer reminds us that the Anglo-Saxons were originally ___.

Answer 28

Vikings

Question 29

narrator and the Wanderer

Answer 29

speakers in the poem

Question 30

“sea-way”; “whale-path”; “giver of gold”

Answer 30

kennings

Question 31

He imagines hearing the “laughter of men.” He actually hears the “gannet’s cry,” the “kittiwakes chatter,” and the “call of the sea-mews.”

Answer 31

contrast

Question 32

a broad them for “The Seafarer”

Answer 32

exile

Question 33

Not ever-hot in his heart, nor over-swift in his speech; / Nor faint of soul nor secure, nor fain for the fight nor afraid

Answer 33

some characteristics of a sage

Question 34

what makes life so uncertain and “wrenches the soul away”

Answer 34

violence, age, disease

Question 35

“in every sooth I know / Excellent is it in man that his breast he straightly bind, / Shut fast his thinking in silence, whatever he have in his mind. / The man that is weary in heart, he never can fate withstand; / The man that grieves in his spirit, he finds not the helper’s hand.” is an example of

Answer 35

“self-reliant pagan stoicism”

Question 36

“This garment of flesh has no power, when the spirit escapes, / To drink in the sweet nor to taste of the bitter; it then / Has no power to stretch forth the hands or to think with the mind.” these lines are implications of ___.

Answer 36

death

Question 37

meant everything to a Germanic tribesman

Answer 37

social ties

Question 38

setting in “the Seafarer”

Answer 38

“the shadows of night became darker”; “it snowed from the North”; “The world was enchained by frost”; “hail fell upon the earth”