Beowulf Vocabulary

repetition of sounds at the beginning of words that are in close proximity to one another

• alliteration

• value

• Anglo-Saxon

• didactic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

a strongly held belief about what is valuable or acceptable

• Anglo-Saxon

• didactic

• value

• kenning

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

long poem that praises heroic deeds

• suspense

• biblical allusion

• kenning

• epic poem

a Germanic inhabitant of England between 400 CE and the Norman conquest of 1066.

• Anglo-Saxon

• kenning

• fate

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

intended to teach

• didactic

• epic poem

• value

• biblical allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

an expression in Old English with a metaphorical meaning (ex., oar-steed, whale-road)

• didactic

• kenning

• suspense

• fate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

reference to people or places in the bible

• suspense

• theme

• fate

• biblical allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

a state of anxious uncertainty about what may happen in a story

• suspense

• biblical allusion

• Anglo-Saxon

• epic poem

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

a predetermined course of events

• theme

• kenning

• suspense

• fate

what a work says about a concept such as love, war, freedom, etc. These are universal.

• kenning

• alliteration

• theme

• value

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2