Slide 1EPIC! Epic, what does it mean to you? Hero w/ battles and journeys Ceremony, giving of gifts Boasting dialogue Parallelisms Symbolic descriptions epithets, kennings…
Slide 1Sentence Correction This story from the misty regions of Englands past is about a hero. To save people, he faces the following violence, horror, and even death. The…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 An epic is “a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society” 5 Epic…
Slide 1 Anglo-Saxon Literature: An Introduction Slide 2 Literature Characteristics Few “pieces” of literature; however, it covers a larger period of time than any other…
Slide 1 BEOWULF – RELATED READINGS Shrink Lit, “Anger” & excerpt from Grendel Slide 2 WRITING TO LEARN Please take out a piece of paper to write on which will…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Jeopardy Name that Literary Device Name that Character The Conversion of K.E The Conversion of K.E. Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300…
Slide 1 L ITERARY T ERMS : B EOWULF Slide 2 A LLITERATION Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in words (usually at the beginning of the word) that are close…
Slide 1 Beowulf Characters Part I Slide 2 Odin Scyld Scefing God of the Danes Sent from Odin to be king of the Danes Slide 3 OnelaHealfdene Scyld Scefing’s grandson King…