A compound word used to create exciting descriptions

What was a Scops job?

To entertain the mead hall by singing about heroes and traditions

How were traditions and education passed down to the Anglo-Saxons?

By Scops singing of heroic stories and sharing the rules for how to behave

What is an example of alliteration?

Keeping the crazy cat out was crucial to Kathrine.

A break in lines of poetry to allow the speaker/singer to breathe

What is alliteration?

The same consonant sound at the beginning of a group of words

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Anglo-Saxon Quiz

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Includes Scops, Oral Tradition, Beowulf Manuscript, and Poetic Devices

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1
Where is the manuscript currently?
with Sir Robert Cotton's family
The German Library
The British Library
with Laurence Nowell's family
2
What is a kenning?
When the author provides an indication of what is to come
A compound word used to create exciting descriptions
An overused phrase
An underlying message within a piece of writing
3
What is one way you can join words when creating kennings?
an apostrophe
a comma
a hyphen
a colon
4
When was the Beowulf manuscript written?
early 9th century
late 10th century
late 12th century
early 11th century
5
What was a Scops job?
To talk to the people in the mead halls and offer conversation
To entertain the mead hall by singing about heroes and traditions
To give out free food and prayers to the poor
To clean the weaponry of the soldiers in the mead hall
6
What caused the Beowulf manuscript to be damaged?
It was burned in a fire.
It fell of a train while being transported.
It was stolen and had pages ripped out.
It incurred water damage in a flood.
7
How were traditions and education passed down to the Anglo-Saxons?
By parents reading their children stories
By teachers that worked in small schools within the villages
By Scops singing of heroic stories and sharing the rules for how to behave
By groups of dancers preforming large numbers with elaborate costumes
8
What is an example of alliteration?
Keeping the crazy cat out was crucial to Kathrine.
The dog ate the little girl's ice-cream cone.
Aunt Anna is an amazing accountant.
Alvin always answers his vocab questions awfully.
9
What is a caesura?
A break in lines of poetry to allow the speaker/singer to breathe
A punctuation mark that joins two lines into one
The use of vivid language to evoke imagery
The use of run-on sentences to make stories longer
10
What is alliteration?
The same vowel sound at the beginning of a group of words
The use of vivid wording to create imagery
The same consonant sound at the beginning of a group of words
A space during a poem to allow a breath break

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