FHS Senior English: October 2017

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Terms to Know, Beowulf Exam

Beowulf Exam

Part I (Multiple Choice and Matching): Wednesday, Nov. 1

Part II (Short Answer and Essay Question): Thursday, Nov. 2

Terms/Concepts to Know:

Epic (Traits)

In Medias Res

Invocation

Verse

Deus Ex Machina

Episodic Plot Structure (episodes)

Epithets

Large Scale Setting

Allegory

Xenophobia

Nationalism
Primary vs. Secondary Epic

Archetype

Archetypal Criticism

Archetypal Characters (know specific character types)

The Monomyth

Archetypal Symbols (know specific symbols)
Archetypal Situations (know specific situations)

Collective Unconscious

Personal Unconscious

Carl Jung

Joseph Campbell

Alliteration

Kenning
Litote

Caesura

Elegy

Angleland

Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians

Germanic Language

Romance Language

Thegn

Wergild

Scop
Wyrd

Flyting

Comitatus
Anno Domini
Hwaet

Barrow (Tumulus)
Mead Hall
Mead
Cremation vs. Inhumation

Economic Migrant

Post-Migration Epic/Literature

Honor/Shame Culture

Paganism vs. Christianity
Norman Conquest
Battle of Hastings

Bede of Jarrow (The Venerable Bede)

Ecclesiastical History of the English People
The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

Middle English

Modern English (including Early Modern English)

Image Credit: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, "Beowulf with the Head of Grendel" (1908).

Monday, October 23, 2017

Homework, 10/23/2017: "The Wanderer"

For tomorrow (10/24), read "The Wanderer." Identify similarities between the poem and the following lines from Beowulf:

"Remember, Hrothgar, Oh knowing king, now
When my danger is near, the warm words we uttered,
And if your enemy should end my life
Then be, oh generous prince, forever
The father and protector of all whom I leave
Behind me, here in your hands, my beloved
Comrades left with no leader, their leader
Dead. And the precious gifts you gave me,
My friend, send them to Higlac. May he see
In their golden brightness, the Geats' great lord
Gazing at your treasure, that here in Denmark
I found a noble protector, a giver
Of rings whose rewards I won and briefly
Relished. And you, Unferth, let
My famous old sword stay in your hands:
I shall shape glory with Hrunting, or death
Will hurry me from this earth!"

Complete study guide question #24 and be ready for a quiz over the poem.

Painting by Nicholas Roerich, "Guests from Overseas," 1901.