1.
Highlight the words that are most
descriptive.
2.
Paraphrase the lines.
3.
Discuss what these words remind you of (connotations).
4.
Discuss how these words make you feel (effect).
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A
powerful monster, living down In the darkness, growled in pain, |
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Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend, Grendel, who haunted the moors, the wild Marshes, and made his home in a hell Not hell but earth. |
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they split Into a thousand forms of evil—spirits And fiends, goblins, monsters, giants, A brood forever opposing the Lord's Will, and again and again defeated. |
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And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,
Made heathen vows, |
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I drove Five great giants into chains, chased All of that race from the earth. I swam In the blackness of night, hunting monsters Out of the ocean, and killing them one By one; death was my errand and the fate They had earned. |
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they could hack at Grendel
From every side, trying to open A path for his evil soul, but their points Could not hurt him, the sharpest and hardest iron Could not scratch at his skin, for that sin-stained
demon Had bewitched all men's weapons, laid spells That blunted every
mortal man's blade. |
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For hours he sank through the waves; At last he saw the
mud of the bottom. |
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Then he realized, suddenly, That she'd brought him into someone's battle-hall, And there the water's heat could not hurt him, Nor anything in the lake attack him through The building's
high-arching roof. |
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Then he saw, hanging on the wall, a heavy Sword, hammered by giants, strong And blessed with
their magic, |
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Then the sword Melted, blood-soaked, dripping down Like water,
disappearing like ice |
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