1. JEOPARDY SLIDES It wouldn’t let me upload the game in its original format, but he’s the questions and answers we used in our class jeopardy

2. Repetition of initial consonant sounds ALLITERATION A 100

3. A comparison that is extended throughout an entire stanza or poem Extended Metaphor A 200200

4. whale-road or bone-house are examples of a _________ KENNING A 400400

5. A 500500 To err is human // To forgive is divine CAESURA

6. The monster who fights Beowulf GRENDEL B 100100

7. The king of the Danes who asks Beowulf to help his people HROTHGAR B 200200

8. The queen of the Ancient Britons BOUDDICA B 300

9. The Britons were led by this Christian Celtic commander and his brave knights to restore honor and chivalry KING ARTHUR B 400

10. Great powerful king in the eighth century who defeated the Danes (Vikings) and converted them to Christianity ALFRED THE GREAT B 500500

11. Actions of the hero determine the _______ of the nation FATE C 100100

12. The setting is __________ and often involves more than one nation. VAST C 200200

13. Plot is often complicated by ____________ events SUPERNATURAL C 300300

14. C 400400 HERO IS OF __________ BIRTH Noble or high

15. Poem has a __________ theme, such as good and evil or life and death UNIVERSAL C 500500

16. This was the religion that had spread throughout Britain by the year A.D. 690 CHRISTIANITY D 100100

17. This phenomenon spread along with Christianity in Britain so that people could read religious texts LITERACY D 200200

18. A long narrative poem that celebrates a hero’s deeds EPIC D 300300

19. Men who publicly performed orally poetry SCOPS or BARDS D 400400

20. Beowulf’s third and final battle is against ___________ DRAGON E 100100

21. Beowulf is so confident that he can defeat Grendel that he decides to fight _____________ Unarmed or without weapons E 200200

22. After defeating Grendel, he hangs up his ________ in the mead hall as a trophy ARM E 300300

23. The dragon is angry with the Geats because this crime is committed against him ROBBERY of golden goblet E 400400

24. The only one of Beowulf’s warriors to stay loyal to the end was __________ WIGLAF E 500

25. Beowulf’s second battle is against _________ GRENDEL’S MOTHER F 100

26. The author of Beowulf is _______ UNKNOWN F 200200

27. The language Beowulf was written in was ___________ Old English or Anglo-Saxon F 300300

28. This is the number of years that pass between Beowulf’s battle with Grendel’s mother and his battle with the dragon 50 F 400400

29. Grendel is a descendent of __________ CAIN F 500500