JEOPARDY SLIDES

It wouldn’t let me upload the game in its original format, but he’s the questions and

answers we used in our class jeopardy

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

ALLITERATIONA 100

A comparison that is extended throughout an entire stanza or poem

Extended Metaphor

A 200

whale-road or bone-house are examples of a _________

KENNING

A 400

A 500

To err is human // To forgive is divine

CAESURA

The monster who fights Beowulf

GRENDEL

B 100

The king of the Danes who asks Beowulf to help his people

HROTHGAR

B 200

The queen of the Ancient Britons

BOUDDICA

B 300

The Britons were led by this Christian Celtic commander and his brave knights to restore honor and chivalry

KING ARTHUR

B 400

Great powerful king in the eighth century who defeated the Danes (Vikings) and converted them to Christianity

ALFRED THE GREAT

B 500

Actions of the hero determine the _______ of the nation

FATE

C 100

The setting is __________ and often involves more than one nation.

VAST

C 200

Plot is often complicated by ____________ events

SUPERNATURAL

C 300

C 400

HERO IS OF __________ BIRTH

Noble or high

Poem has a __________ theme, such as good and evil or life and death

UNIVERSAL

C 500

This was the religion that had spread throughout Britain by the year A.D. 690

CHRISTIANITYD 100

This phenomenon spread along with Christianity in Britain so that people could read religious texts

LITERACYD 200

A long narrative poem that celebrates a hero’s deeds

EPIC

D 300

Men who publicly performed orally poetry

SCOPS or BARDS

D 400

Beowulf’s third and final battle is against ___________

DRAGON

E 100

Beowulf is so confident that he can defeat Grendel that he decides to fight _____________

Unarmed or without weapons

E 200

After defeating Grendel, he hangs up his ________ in the mead hall as a trophy

ARME 300

The dragon is angry with the Geats because this crime is committed against him

ROBBERY of golden gobletE 400

The only one of Beowulf’s warriors to stay loyal to the end was __________

WIGLAFE 500

Beowulf’s second battle is against _________

GRENDEL’S MOTHER

F 100

The author of Beowulf is _______

UNKNOWN

F 200

The language Beowulf was written in was ___________

Old English or Anglo-Saxon

F 300

This is the number of years that pass between Beowulf’s battle with Grendel’s mother and his battle with the dragon

50

F 400

Grendel is a descendent of __________

CAIN

F 500