1. Jeopardy Final Jeopardy Poetry Chaucer Beowulf Grammar Vocabulary $100
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Final Jeopardy

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From “The Seafarer” – “…Alone in a world blown clear of love,/Hung with icicles. The hailstorms flew.” What is the tone evoked by these words?
Despondence/sorrow/loneliness

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Sonnet 30 – “My love is like to ice, and I to fire;/How comes it then that this her cold so great/Is not dissolved by my so hot desire…” What is the speaking lamenting?
Unreciprocated love

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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 – “Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments…” How does Shakespeare describe true love?
Invulnerable/unbreakable

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Sonnet 29 – “…I all alone beweep my outcast state…” In this line, Shakespeare portrays which emotion?
Forlornness/loneliness/bleakness

6. 1 - $500 Our hearts are united by nature itself.
What is the best paraphrase for the excerpt from Donne’s A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning?
“If they be two, they are two so/As stiff, twin compasses are two,/Thy soul the fixed foot makes no show/To move, but doth, if th’ other do.”
Our hearts are united by nature itself.

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In the Prologue, the Prioress and the Monk show that Chaucer feels the Church has what flaw?
Greediness and a disregard of the needy

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Who agrees to travel with the pilgrims and to be judge of the contest?
Innkeeper

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What does the Pardoner’s Tale preach against?
Greed, gluttony

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What does the old lady demand in return for supplying the Knight with the correct answer to the Queen’s question?
For the Knight to marry her.

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What does The Green Knight want the challenger to agree to do?
To cut off The Green Knight’s head and then appear one year later to have his own head cut off.

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Who is the first person we see Beowulf fight?
Grendel

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Who is Beowulf’s last opponent?
Dragon

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Who returns the dragon’s treasure?
Wexstan’s son - Wiglaf

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The following excerpt from Beowulf’s “The Battle With the Dragon” plainly casts Beowulf as the tale’s _________? “… The Geats/Deserved revenge; Beowulf, their… lord, began to plan it…”
Protagonist

16. 3 - $500 What makes Beowulf an epic hero?
Tragic ending, larger than life, supernatural

17. 4 - $100 What term best describes the italicized word?
They watched the flock of birds fly south, in what looked like perfect formation.
Collective noun

18. 4 - $200 What term best describes the italicized word?
The suspect looked as though he knew more than he was letting on.
Linking verb

19. 4 - $300 What term best describes the italicized word?
We called the neighbor’s cat Sham-Wow, although we know that was most likely not its name.
Objective complement

20. 4 - $400 What term best describes the italicized phrase?
Helping the poor became her life’s mission.
Gerund phrase

21. 4 - $500 What sentence structure is used in this sentence?
Although he was drafted in the Vietnam War, Muhammad Ali refused to fight.
Complex

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If the speaker in The Wife’s Lament were to return home, it would make her blithe, or?
happy

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A person who dies for his religious beliefs
martyr

24. 5 - $300 A form of literature with an underlying moral or lesson
allegory

25. 5 - $400 In Sonnet 29, Shakespeare describes the earth as sullen, or?
gloomy

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In Milton’s Paradise Lost, Satan views his fall from heaven as an ignominy, or?
Public disgrace

27. Final Jeopardy
What evidence from “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” supports Gray’s classification as a pre-Romantic?
Deals with death, melancholy tone, uses personal insights, images, feelings, etc.