Beowulf faces a new foe
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I can outline the key events in the fifth chapter of ‘Beowulf’ and I can explain the author’s language choices.
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After Grendel is defeated, another monster - his mother - arrives at Heorot, taking away a Dane.
Beowulf and his companions travel across bleak countryside to find her lair.
Beowulf fights with Grendel's mother, narrowly avoiding death before killing her with a special sword.
Authors make specific language choices in their writing in order to have a specific effect on the reader.
A kenning is an Old English way of replacing a noun with a two-word phrase that describes it indirectly.
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