1. read the “before you read” section on p. 36 of british literature, responding to the think critically questi
2. read the following excerpts from beowulf: "grendel's mother” and “the battle with grendel's mother” on
3. complete the read critically activity on pp. 43-44.
4. continue to fill in the alliteration chart that you accessed earlier as you read the excerpts from beowulf.
answer these fill-in-the-blank questions:
in each blank space, type the name of the poetic device that completes the sentence correctly.
1. the original
of beowulf is rendered through the use of caesura in its modern-english translation.
2. the lines “glorious band of geats / god” are an example of
3. enithets like “geats' proud prince," "best and strongest of soldiers," and "noble protector of seamen" used thro