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Symbolism
Plot
Characters
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2. “My lord, the great king of the Danes…”

3. kennings
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4. “Grendel’s great teeth came together, snapping life shut.”

5. Metaphor

6. “Light and life fleeing together.”

7. Personification

8. Went up to Herot, wondering what the warriors/ Would do…”

9. Alliteration

10. …knowing the fiend was no use/To anyone in Denmark.”

11. Litotes

12. “Toward that gold-shining hall.”

13. Gold symbolizes good and light

14. “The monster came quickly toward him/Pouring out fire and smoke....”

15. Dragon symbolizes evil.

16. “At night that lake/ Burns like a torch. No one knows its bottom…”

17. The lake symbolizes hell

18. “”The water was bloody, steaming and boiling/In horrible pounding waves…”

19. Water symbolizes the purification of evil or the washing away of sin.

20. “From the rafters where Beowulf had hung it, was the monster’s/Arm, claw and shoulder and all.”

21. Grendel’s arm symbolizes the triumph of good over evil/Beowulf’s hubris

22. The name of Hrothgar’s hall.

23. Herot

24. The object Beowulf wants built in his honor when he dies..

25. A tower.

26. The one object stolen from the dragon that awoke his wrath.

27. A cup.

28. Who made the sword that Beowulf used to kill Grendel’s mother?

29. The giants

30. The one servant who stayed behind to help Beowulf kill the dragon.

31. Wiglaf.

32. The protagonist.

33. Beowulf

34. The antagonist.

35. Grendel, Grendel’s mother, the dragon.

36. Challenges Beowulf’s claims of greatness.

37. Unferth

38. Challenged Beowulf to a swimming competition.

39. Brecca.

40. Beowulf’s father

41. Edgetho

42. Beowulf.

43. Christ

44. The Dragon.

45. Satan/ evil

46. The men who abandon Beowulf to the dragon.

47. The 12 disciples

48. The Dragon’s stolen cup.

49. The cup Christ used during the Last Supper

50. Wiglaf stayed and fought for Beowulf.

51. Simon took the cross from Jesus