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Name: Kalkidan B Mulugeta Block: 05 Date: 2020-10-29 Beowulf Text Analysis/Vocabulary/Reading Comprehension You must write complete sentences, or your answers will be marked wrong. GRENDEL (pages 42-45) As you read record examples of similes, kennings, alliteration and caesura on the following chart. Terms Simile Kennings Alliteration

Caesura

Vocabulary Word lair

affliction

Examples from the selection “Thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws:” “So, mankind’s enemy continued his crimes” “A powerful monster, living down In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient As day after day the music rang ….” “…. Went up to Herot, wondering what the warriors...”

Line #’s 35 79 1-3

31

Predicted Meaning

Meaning in Selection and line location

It’s something that is on top of something for a covering purpose. It is a consequence

Lair is the den or resting of a wild animal. Line 40. Affliction is a force that oppresses or causes suffering. Line 93.

7. Describe what transpires in the mead hall to evoke the anger of the monster. 

The people were singing about creation/God and celebrating evoke the monster’s anger.

8. What is Grendel’s lineage? 

His lineage is Born of Cain.

9. Why has he been exiled and by whom? 

He was exiled by God because he murdered his brother and that he is descendant of Cain.

10. What happens during Grendel’s first visit to Herot? When does this occur? Describe the scene. 

It was at night; everyone was sleeping, and he snatched 30 men and ran out with their bloody bodies.

11. What is the meaning of lines 48-49: “…fearing/The beginning might not be the end”? 

Hrothgar was afraid that Grendel will not stop killing and he might never be stopped.

12. How long does Grendel haunt Herot? 

Grendel haunts Herot for 12 winter.

13. Why doesn’t Grendel attack Hrothgar? 

Because he is protected by God.

14. To what measures do Hrothgar and his nobles’ resort to rid themselves of Grendel? 

They are sacrificing to “the old stone gods” and “hoping for hell’s support” to rid themselves of Grendel.

BEOWULF (pages 46-49) As you read record examples of similes, kennings, alliteration and caesura on the following chart. Terms Simile Kennings

Line #’s 131 104

Alliteration

Examples from the selection “Now go to him as you are, in your armor and helmets…” “So, the living sorrow of Healfdane’s son Simmered” “The bravest and best…”

Caesura

“My lord, the great king of Danes…”

127

Vocabulary Word purge

gorge

Predicted Meaning It is when something has come in that can affect a lot of people. To choke on food.

121

Meaning in selection and line location It is to cleanse or rid of something undesirable. Line 166. It is to stuff with food; glut. Line 178

19. How does Beowulf react when he hears of the plight of the Danes and Hrothgar? 

He selected the bravest soldiers in Geatland and travels across the sea to help.

20. What characteristics do you think the fourteen men Beowulf chose to accompany him had in common?  The characteristics that I think Beowulf would choose to accompany him are the one who are loyal to their king and family and that would risk their lives to defeat Grendel. 21. How are Beowulf and his men received when they arrive on the Danish shore? 

The lieutenant of Hrothgar demanded to know their business before they can proceed.

22. Describe Beowulf’s boasts upon meeting Hrothgar, King of the Danes. 

Beowulf’s greeted Hrothgar by regaling him with his stories of his great strength. Beowulf drove a giant into chains and chased them from earth and has hunted monsters out of the ocean.

23. What is the effect of having Beowulf describe his own great deeds? 

The is that Hrothgar can allow him to kill Grendel.

24. What epic hero traits does he seem to possess? 

He seems to possess to show his brave deeds and his strong and responsible leadership.

25. What one request does Beowulf make of Hrothgar? 

To allow him and his men to drive Grendel from Herot.

26. Why does Beowulf insist that “my hands alone shall fight for me”? 

Because Grendel has no weapon himself and Beowulf will fight him with his hands.

27. If Beowulf loses the battle with Grendel, what are his instructions for after his death? 

The instruction after his death was that the Danish king should send the mail of his armor to Higlac, return the inheritance he had from Hrothgar and asked him to protect his men.

28. What is the significance of Beowulf’s statement, “Fate will unwind as it must”? 

Beowulf believes in the old Anglo-Saxon belief that fate is the predetermined chain of events, living it to only one way in which the battle will end and accepted death because he knew he might die, and it was because of fate.

29. How did Hrothgar become king? What is his past relationship to the Geats? 

Hrothgar became king after his older brother, Hergar died. The relationship to the Geats is the Hrothgar worked with Edgetho Beowulf father to secure an earlier peace.

30. What societal values are reflected in Hrothgar’s speech to Beowulf? 

Hrothgar’s speech to Beowulf reflected values were friendship, peace, loyalty and courage....