You will be quizzed on:
- the "Beowulf" vocabulary (also on this blog)
- "Beowulf" themes; I'll give you a quotation, and you tell me which theme it demonstrates.
On the quiz, I will give you a quotation from the poem. You will tell me what theme you believe it expresses, and why you think so. (I will not give you a list of themes; you will have to memorize them.) To refresh your memory, the themes we've been discussing in "Beowulf" are as follows:
- Leaders and followers
- Heroism
- Honor
- How to live
- The Christian-Pagan dichotomy
- ADDITIONAL THEME: Transience
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