_Beowulf_ Vocabulary Quiz

Long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

• epic

• elegy

• allegory

• kenning

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of each word

• allusion
• allegory
• assonance
• alliteration

a dark murky place; to come into dock

• purge

• sinew

• moor

• lair

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

the habitation of wild animals

• lair
• spawn
• moor
• sinew

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

an evil supernatural being

• sinew

• fiend

• friend

• talon

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

a cause of great suffering and distress

• affliction
• allegory
• loathsome
• reparation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

something done or paid in expiation of a wrong

• infamous
• perambulate
• gorge
• reparation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

rid of impurities

• purge
• craven
• exile
• spawn

known widely and usually unfavorably

• infamous
• admonish
• affliction
• prosper

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

pulled or drawn tight

• caesura

• callous

• taut

• mirth

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4