"The Wife's Lament"

What does it mean to be an exile? For full credit, your answer MUST be a complete sentence!

Which of the following is an example of a kenning?

• red rose

• tortoise shell

• SpongeBob

• whale-road

Read the following quote from the poem:

"Be he outlawed

far in a strange folk-land-- that my beloved sits

under a rocky cliff rimed with frost

a lord dreary in spirit."

What words or phrases help you to recognize the historical context of these lines?

• outlawed; strange folk-land

• rocky cliff

• my beloved

• dreary in spirit

The purpose of a caesura in a line of Anglo-Saxon poetry is to __________________.

• mark the four beats in a line

• provide a metaphorical name for something

• indicate a pause for breath

• remind a poet what to say

In "The Wife's Lament", the wife assumes her husband is now ______________.

• married to someone else

• on an exciting adventure and not thinking of her

• melancholy, as she is

• on his way home for a reconciliation

What initiated the wife's exile in "The Wife's Lament"?

• a plot by her husband's kinsmen

• the lord of that region issuing a formal decree

• her husband's long absence

• her traveling in spite of her husband's wishes