Which two of these characteristics are common to epics and ballads? both originated from the oral poetic tradition. both revolve around the exploits of a central hero. both use iambic pentameter and a simple rhyme scheme. both contain the elements of a narrative. both are exclusively focused on mythological stories.

Fill in the table with definitions of the literary techniques and concepts that occur in beowulf.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

How can an author reveal move information about a character