Literary Devices Symbolism Plot Characters Allegory 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

“My lord, the great king of the Danes…”

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“Grendel’s great teeth came together, snapping life shut.”

Metaphor

“Light and life fleeing together.”

Personification

Went up to Herot, wondering what the warriors/ Would do…”

Alliteration

…knowing the fiend was no use/To anyone in Denmark.”

Litotes

“Toward that gold-shining hall.”

Gold symbolizes good and light

“The monster came quickly toward him/Pouring out fire and smoke....”

Dragon symbolizes evil.

“At night that lake/ Burns like a torch. No one knows its bottom…”

The lake symbolizes hell

“”The water was bloody, steaming and boiling/In horrible pounding waves…”

Water symbolizes the purification of evil or the washing away of sin.

“From the rafters where Beowulf had hung it, was the monster’s/Arm, claw and shoulder and all.”

Grendel’s arm symbolizes the triumph of good over evil/Beowulf’s hubris

The name of Hrothgar’s hall.

Herot

The object Beowulf wants built in his honor when he dies..

A tower.

The one object stolen from the dragon that awoke his wrath.

A cup.

Who made the sword that Beowulf used to kill Grendel’s mother?

The giants

The one servant who stayed behind to help Beowulf kill the dragon.

Wiglaf.

The protagonist.

Beowulf

The antagonist.

Grendel, Grendel’s mother, the dragon.

Challenges Beowulf’s claims of greatness.

Unferth

Challenged Beowulf to a swimming competition.

Brecca.

Beowulf’s father

Edgetho

Beowulf.

Christ

The Dragon.

Satan/ evil

The men who abandon Beowulf to the dragon.

The 12 disciples

The Dragon’s stolen cup.

The cup Christ used during the Last Supper

Wiglaf stayed and fought for Beowulf.

Simon took the cross from Jesus