Read the sentence from paragraph 3. Oh yes, and he also batted in 2,213 runs.
Choose THREE phrases that can replace the underlined phrase in the sentence.
In addition,
Not only that,
O By contrast,
On the other hand,
✓ Besides that,

dependent clause!

example: "before the food gets cold"

beowulf is filled with alliterations, caesuras, and kennings intended both to give the epic a musical, rhythmic quality and to assist the bard performing the epic in remembering the lines. just as the lyrics to our favorite songs are easier to remember than a context-free list of names or census data, poetic devices like those listed above stick in the bard's mind.

it is not known if beowulf was chanted, sung, or recited more like a modern day poem, but the poetic devices evident in the epic almost certainly had their origin in memorization and oral recitation.

the answer to your question is (a. counted on)