Beowulf study guide Questions & 100% Correct Answers
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Explain the contrast that is developed between Herot, home of the Danes,
and Grendel's home. How do the biblical allusions extend this contrast?
~~> Herot's home was happy, fun, and bright with laughing.
Grendel's home was haunted with moors and the wild marshes. He
made his home in a he...
✓ ~~> Grendel is being stirred and was punished forever for the crime
of Abel's death. The almighty drove the demons out and his exile was
bitter, shut away from men. He split into a thousand forms evil. A brood
forever opposing the lord's will. With all this hate in him the
foreshadowing will be him getting his revenge on everyone who done
him wrong.
Identify the alliteration, a device used in oral tradition, in lines 33-37. What
might be the purpose for this device?
✓ ~~> The alliteration in lines 33-37 is "He found them sprawled in sleep,
suspecting nothing, their dreams undisturbed. The monsters thoughts
were as quick as his greed or his claws: he slipped through the door
and there in the silence snatched up thirty men, smashed them." The
purpose of this was to show how peaceful everybody was and how he
disturbed the peace.
On page 411, identify the tone of lines 44-49. What details and words help to
convey the attitude of the poet?
✓ ~~> The tone in lines 44-49 is sadness. I know this because in the lines
it says Hrothgar sat joyless and was mourning. It also says how he wept
and was fearing for what's coming or what's gonna happen.
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