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201 Questions
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1. Mead-hall
2. Hrothgar
3. Grendel's Mother
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4. Beowulf, being an epic, promotes certain values. Do you agree? Justify your answer.
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2. Kenning
4. The Cells
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1. Discuss how the Rood, with the use of extraordinary oratory skills, emerges to be the
4. Do you think the personification of the cross in " The Dream of the Rood" helps convey
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1. Describe the theme of exile from your reading of the poem "The Wanderer"
2. Comment on the theme of exile as expressed in "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer".
3. Discuss the elegiac qualities of " The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer".
5. Why is the speaker in "The Seafarer" so restless and unhappy? Why is he forced to travel
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1. The Summoner
2. Wife of Bath
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1. Compare the ideals of courtly love in "The Knight's Tale" and "The wife of Bath's Tale".
3. " The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales" is a picture of Middle English society -
Shot notes
3. The Summoner
4. Merlin
5. Kenning
6. Riddle
7. Grendel
9. Allegory
12. Elegy
13. Mead-hall
17. Hrothgar
Language
1. Almost all current major European and Asian languages have a common Indo-European
ancestry. Elucidate.
2. What are the chief characteristics of the Old English language? Elaborate.
3. Discuss the reasons how English was established as the main language of England after