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These are the people who settled Britain and brought
their Germanic language and culture.
Who are the Anglo-Saxons?
This alcoholic drink is made of
honey
What is mead?
This is poet or bard would perform
songs at the banquet halls.
What is a scop?
The king of the Danes.
Who is Hrothgar?
When Beowulf fights Grendel he takes this body
part as a souvenir.
What is the arm?
In order to defeat Grendel’s mother he borrows this.
What is Hrunting?
This character symbolizes loyalty
since he is the only one who helps Beowulf with the dragon.
Who is Wiglaf?
Beowulf is not English or Danish, but rather this lost
culture.
What is Geat?
Beowulf is considered this type of poem.
What is an epic?
After Beowulf’s death, this is built to honor
him and help his sailor people.
What is a tower?
This is the term for a voyage made to a
religious destination.
What is a pilgrimage?
This is the month that the travellers
leave London.
What is April?
The host comes up with a contest to
see who can do this the best.
What is tell stories?
This is the prize of the contest.
What is a free meal (at the Tabbard
Inn)?
Radix malorum est cupiditas means this in English.
What is “The love of money is the root of all evil”?
In the “Pardoner’s Tale” the three
rioters go looking for this.
What is Death?
According to the Wife of Bath, this is what women want.
What is sovereignty?
(control or power or independence)
This is the reason the Knight got to
marry a young and beautiful?
What is giving her the power to
decide?
I am a bishop who was murdered in the Catherdal in
Canterbury.
Who is Thomas a Beckett?
I am the author of the Canterbury
Tales
Who is Geoffery Chaucer?
Macbeth takes place in this
country.
What is Scotland?
This is the name of the king who is
murdered.
Who is Duncan?
At the beginning of the play, Macbeth
has this title.
What is Thane of Glamis?
This term describes something that seems like
a contradiction, but contains a truth.
What is a paradox?
The first part of the witches’ prediction comes
true when this disloyal nobleman is executed.
Who is the Thane of Cawdor?
This is the function of the porter, known for his jokes
about drinking and sex.
What is comic relief?
This is Macbeth’s tragic flaw.
What is ambition?
Macbeth’s strange vision of this character is often
seen as the climax or turning point.
Who is Banquo (or the ghost of Banquo)?
This character is not born of woman.
Who is Macduff?
This is the name of the forest that
begins to “move.”
What is Birnam Wood?
In D.H. Lawrence’s “Rocking Horse Winner”
the little boy wishes he had what?
What is luck?
The house always seems to be
whispering this phrase.
What is “There must be more money.”
This character, the gardener, helps
place the bets for young Paul.
Who is Bassett?
Uncle Oscar points out that Paul picked the winning horse in the
Epsom Derby and won a fortune, but it cost Hester (the mom) this.
What is her son’s life?
In “A Cup of Tea,”Rosemary Fell and Miss Smith are separated
by this.
What is social class?
Rosemary feels insecure when her
husband Philip says this about Miss Smith.
What is how pretty Miss Smith is?
A sonnet has this many lines.
What is 14?
In “To the Virgins,” the speaker is most concerned about this moving quickly.
What is time?
Andrew Marvell’s mistress is described as
this, meaning shy, hesitant, modest.
What is coy?
Carpe Diem translates to this English phrase.
What is “seize the day”?
The oil burner, which is located in the basement, had stopped A
during the night the house was cold when we woke up in the morning. B C DNo error. E
What is B (run-on)?
Two weeks before the wedding we rented a tent Afor the reception however, it rained the day of the wedding, and the B Creception had to be held indoors. No error. D E
What is B (run-on)?
The wedding was scheduled for four o'clock, the
A B
bride changed her mind at two.
C D
What is B (run-on)?
This is the problem with this sentence:
Had been a shoe salesperson many years ago.
What is a fragment?
This is the problem with this sentence:
Although many people do not attend college.
What is a fragment?
This literary device repeats the initial consonant sound. For example, “The Hall of the
Heart,” "His pledge and promise,” "Dragging the dead men home to his den,”
"Fitted and furnished,” and "Showed sea-
cliffs shining.”
What is alliteration?
This term means exaggeration. For example, in “To His Coy
Mistress,” the speaker vows to stare for two hundred years.
What is hyperbole?
Lines that come in pairs and share a rhyme (aa,
bb, cc). Used in Canterbury Tales.
What is a (rhyming) couplet?
In Sonnet 116, love “is the star to every wandering bark
[ship].” This device is used.
What is a metaphor?
In Sonnet 29, the speaker says he feels “like the
lark at the break of day” when he thinks of his
love. This device is used.
What is a simile?
Make your wager
This Scottish peak that Birnam Wood
seems to visit in "Macbeth" is only
1,012 feet high
What is Dunsinane?