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
Repetition of initial
consonant sounds
ALLITERATION
A 100
A comparison that is extended
throughout an entire stanza or
poem
Extended Metaphor
A 200
whale-road or bone-house
are examples of a _________
KENNING
A 400
To err is human // To forgive is divine
CAESURA
A 500
The monster who fights
Beowulf
GRENDEL
B 100
The king of the Danes
who asks Beowulf to
help his people
HROTHGAR
B 200
The queen of the Ancient
Britons
BOUDDICA
B 300
The Britons were led by
this Christian Celtic
commander and his
brave knights to restore
honor and chivalry
KING ARTHUR
B 400
Great powerful king in the
eighth century who
defeated the Danes
(Vikings) and converted
them to Christianity
ALFRED THE GREAT
B 500
Actions of the hero
determine the _______ of
the nation
FATE
C 100
The setting is __________
and often involves more than
one nation.
VAST
C 200
Plot is often complicated by
____________ events
SUPERNATURAL
C 300
HERO IS OF
__________ BIRTH
Noble or high
C 400
Poem has a __________
theme, such as good and evil
or life and death
UNIVERSAL
C 500
This was the religion that had
spread throughout Britain by
the year A.D. 690
CHRISTIANITY
D 100
This phenomenon spread
along with Christianity in
Britain so that people could
read religious texts
LITERACY
D 200
A long narrative poem that
celebrates a hero’s deeds
EPIC
D 300
Men who publicly performed
orally poetry
SCOPS or BARDS
D 400
Beowulf’s third and final battle
is against ___________
DRAGON
E 100
Beowulf is so confident that
he can defeat Grendel that he
decides to fight
_____________
Unarmed or without weapons
E 200
After defeating Grendel, he
hangs up his ________ in the
mead hall as a trophy
ARM
E 300
The dragon is angry with the
Geats because this crime is
committed against him
ROBBERY of golden goblet
E 400
The only one of Beowulf’s
warriors to stay loyal to the
end was __________
WIGLAF
E 500
Beowulf’s second battle is
against _________
GRENDEL’S MOTHER
F 100
The author of Beowulf is
_______
UNKNOWN
F 200
The language Beowulf was
written in was ___________
Old English or Anglo-Saxon
F 300
This is the number of years
that pass between Beowulf’s
battle with Grendel’s mother
and his battle with the dragon
50
F 400
Grendel is a descendent of
__________
CAIN
F 500