Which additional evidence from the text best supports the inference that Beowulf is stronger and braver than the average warrior? “I hereby renounce / sword and the shelter of the broad shield, / the heavy war-broad: hand-to-hand / is how it will be, a life-and-death / fight with the fiend.”
“And the minstrel sang, / filling Heorot with his head-clearing voice, / gladdening that great rally of Geats and Danes.”
“People from Geatland have put ashore. / They have sailed far over the wide sea. / They call the chief in charge of their band / by the name of Beowulf.”
“A party remained / under orders to keep watch on the arms; / the rest proceeded, led by their prince / under Heorot’s roof.”

answer: the first one

explanation:

explicitly is defined as “in a clear and detailed manner, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.” the rest are interpretive and not clearly proven leaving in fact possible “confusion or doubt” which explicitly, by definition cannot have.

abater   ambary   ambery   baryta   baryte   bemata   betray   jarvey   ramate   ramjet

explanation:

those are all the possible words

98 points!

assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

no plagarism

me

they both lost a woman they loved named lenore

they believed they interracted with a talking raven

they became orphaned at a young age.