Characterization in Grendel

Question 1

Which statements accurately contrast Beowulf and Grendel? Select 2 options.Both works are written in an Old English poetic style.Beowulf characterizes Grendel as bloodthirsty, but Grendel shows Grendel’s gentler side.Beowulf is sympathetic to the humans, while Grendel shows the monster’s perspective.Both works focus primarily on the hero, Beowulf.Beowulf is a contemporary version of an old tale, while Grendel is based on oral tradition.

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Beowulf characterizes Grendel as bloodthirsty, but Grendel shows Grendel’s gentler side.; Beowulf is sympathetic to the humans, while Grendel shows the monster’s perspective.

Question 2

In Grendel, John Gardner uses

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first-person point of view to help readers see Grendel’s side of a familiar story.

Question 3

Which comparison of Beowulf and Grendel is most accurate?

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In the poem, Grendel seems like a heartless monster, but in the novel he is emotionally complex.

Question 4

Read the excerpt from Grendel.Now and then some trivial argument would break out, and one of them would kill another one, and all the others would detach themselves from the killer as neatly as blood clotting, and they’d consider the case and they’d either excuse him, for some reason, or else send him out to the forest to live by stealing from their outlying pens like a wounded fox. At times I would try to befriend the exile, at other times I would try to ignore him, but they were treacherous. In the end, I had to eat them.

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practical

Question 5

Read the excerpt from Grendel.I clamped my palms to my ears and stretched up my lips and shrieked again: a stab at truth, a snatch at apocalyptic glee. Then I ran on all fours, chest pounding, to the smoky mere.

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the creature’s actions

Question 6

Read the line from Grendel.I was safe in my tree, and the men who fought were nothing to me, except of course that they talked in something akin to my language, which meant that we were, incredibly, related.

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first-person narrative showing Grendel’s perspective.

Question 7

Read the line from Grendel.Hrothgar met with his council for many nights and days, and they drank and talked and prayed to their curious carved-out creatures and finally came to a decision.

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He thinks that the men’s religious behavior is strange and interesting.

Question 8

CharacterizationThemePersonificationPerspective

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Characterization

Question 9

Which words best complete the comparison of Beowulf and Grendel?Readers of Beowulf hope that Grendel will be destroyed, but readers of Grendel are most likely to

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understand Grendel’s perspective.

Question 10

Read the description of Grendel from the epic poem Beowulf.If Grendel wins, it will be a gruesome day;he will glut himself on the Geats in the war-hall,swoop without fear on that flower of manhoodas on others before. Then my face won’t be thereto be covered in death: he will carry me awayas he goes to ground, gorged and bloodied;he will run gloating with my raw corpseand feed on it alone, in a cruel frenzy,fouling his moor-nest.

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vicious

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