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Anglo-Saxon Lyric Poetry

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An #ELA test review over #Anglo-Saxon #Lyric Poems #The Seafarer and #The Wanderer

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1
This type of poem expresses the strong emotional thoughts and feelings of one speaker:
Ballad
Lyric
Limerick
A Round
2
This idea springs from ancient mythology and holds that man has no control over events in life:
Framing
Fate
Rapture
String Theory
3
...the sea took me, swept me back and forth in sorrow fear and pain, showed me suffering...
Assonance
Alliteration
Atonal intonation
Attribution
4
The monks who saved the Anglo-Saxon stories by writing them down added what extra element?
Christian Themes
A frequently recouring Christ-like character named Shelt
An angry God who regularly destroyed all he surveyed
A strangely uncharacteristic support of hard-drinking
5
Who left Britain to protect their homeland thereby leaving the island open to invasion?
The Romans
The Jutes
The Angles
The Saxons
6
Which of the following was NOT a strong part of Anglo-Saxon culture?
Feminism
Paganism
Warfare
Seafaring
7
What is the best way to describe The Saxons, the Angles, and The Jutes?
Norman Conquerors
Germanic Tribes
Italian Mercenaries
Irish Raiders
8
The initial themes of both The Seafarer:
All three 1, 2, and 3
sadness
exile
loneliness
9
The Seafarer presents the sea as...
Icy and unforgiving
Fruitful and rewarding
A pathway to glory, riches, and happiness
Changing and inconstant
10
the cry of the sea-fowl, The death-noise of birds instead of laughter; echoed icy-feathered terns and eagle’s screams
The birds' cries are harsh and mirror the Seafarer's emotions
Bird cries are mentioned because they distract the Seafarer from his pain
The birds act as "lookouts" searching for a safe port in which to rest
The birds are able to fly away safely to home unlike the Seafarer
11
A people pass down their history, religion, and rules of behavior through story-telling:
Moral and Ethical Instruction
Cultural Relevancy
Ghost Stories
Oral tradition
12
rise to that eternal joy - life born in love of God - happy the man who seeketh mercy - Heaven
A rejection of the Christian God
Christian chants repeated through Anglo-Saxon poetry
Pagan ideals followed by most Anglo-Saxons
Christian ideas found in the poem The Seafarer
13
Worshipers of Gods outside those of the major religions:
Infidels
Non-Believers
The Devils Own
Pagans
14
This building was home for Anglo-Saxons - a place of eating, drinking, and fellowship:
The Alhambra
The mead-hall
The Citidal
The Cathedral
15
This element of literature reflects the emotional feeling of the setting and the speaker:
Mood
Conflict
Exposition
Lamentation
16
Anglo-Saxon traveling story-tellers who passed down the people's oral traditions:
scops
minstrels
orchestras
choral singers
17
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words:
Alliteration
Alienation
Attentiveness
Assonance
18
Before Christianity, the Anglo-Saxons traditional world-view was...
curious and exploratory
positive and hopeful
grim and fatalistic
pessimistic
19
Days are gone When the kingdoms of earth flourished in glory; Now there are no rulers, no emperors, No givers of gold
The writer wishes to keep populations from moving to a different area
The writer wishes the Anglo-Saxon's to reject their belief in fairies
The writer doesn't like rulers and kings and believes in each man's power
The writer is influencing readers that the old traditional ways are past
20
Anglo-Saxon warriors did not consider themselves citizens of a nation but rather...
Nomads who roamed the continents looking for riches and love
Followers of a warrior king
A stay-at-home people who practiced farming most of the year
Island raiders with no real home
21
Lyric poems that embody the sadness and mourning at the loss of someone or something:
epiphony
elephants
eulogy
elegy
22
Roman Catholic cleric who was able to convert many native British inhabitants to Christianity?
St. Thomas
St. Augustine
St. Peter
St. Paul
23
Who saved much of the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition by writing down the stories they heard?
Vikings raiders who already had a written language
Pagan scholars
Atheists
Christian monks