| A | B |
|---|
| Beowulf was first written when? | late 900s AD |
| bards | poets |
| mead | drink similar to beer |
| blood bubbles | Bewoulf breathed through these |
| Grendel | son of Cain |
| alliteration | repeating consonants at the beginning of words |
| imagery | descriptive language in a literary work |
| kenning | Conventional metaphoric name for something. Ex: Old English bānhūs (bone house) for "body" |
| simile | Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as." |
| metaphor | Comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as." |
| scimitar | A curved, single-edged sword of Oriental origin. |
| Cotton Vitellius A. xv | Manuscript containing the unique copy of the epic poem Beowulf |
| Sir Bruce Cotton | English politician; founder of the Cotton Library where the Beowulf manuscript lay until damaged by fire in 1731 |
| fen | Marshy area |
| foreshadowing | To show or indicate beforehand |
