Beowulf Test Review

Wiglaf

• Beowulf's uncle; King of the Geats at the beginning of the poem

• .Beowulf's father

• Beowulf's successor as king

• King of the Danes

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Wexstan

• Wiglaf's father

• Beowulf's sword

• Group of vikings from Denmark

• Warriors from Geatland

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An epic is......

• novel told in first person point-of-view

• long narrative poem

• a song from ancient times

• a short novel

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Hrunting

• Beowulf's Father

• King of the Danes

• Beowulf's Sword

• WIglaf's Father

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shame, shield, sword

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

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Setting of Beowulf

• Geatland and Germany 100 BCE

• Geatland and Denmark 750 CE

• Denmark and Germany

  1700 CE

• Geatland and Germany 1800 CE

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Kenning

• honesty

• shield warrior

• compound words or phrases that replace or "rename" a noun.

• a Christian

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kenning

• mail-shirt

• shield warrior

• sea-road

• far flung

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Edgetho

• Beowulf's successor as king

• Beowulf's Father

• Beowulf's sword

• King of the Danes

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The Geats

• Beowulf's sword

• Group of Viking from Denmark

• Warriors from Geatland

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