The play opens with a frightening scene which features these otherworldly creatures.

This musical device is most obvious in the popular tounge-twister, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

Beowulf crosses land and sea in order to fight for King Hrothgar against this monster.

From /i/The Canterbury Tales/i/, this character tells an ironic story about preaching against the evils of greed in order to sell pardons and greedily gain more money.

This linguist and scholar is most well known for penning a series of books concerning "little folk" upon whom rests the burden of bringing an end to an epic battle against overwhelming forces of evil.

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This character famously utters the desperate plea, "Out, out damn spot!"

This poetic form consists entirely of lyrical poetry composed into 14 lines of iambic pentameter and was used profusely by "the Bard" himself.

After the first monster is defeated, another comes to terrorize Herot, stealing away afterwards to an underwater lair. The monster's relationship to the first one is this.

In the classic British ballad /i/John Barleycorn/i/, the extended metaphor reveals in the end that the character "John Barleycorn" is actually this substance.

This prolific author wrote such eerie short stories as /i/The Fall of the House of Usher/i/, /i/The Pit and the Pendulum/i/, and /i/The Masque of the Red Death/i/.

King Duncan leaves behind two sons when he is murdered: Malcom, who is his eldest, and this character.

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When one marks the stressed and unstressed syllables of a poem in order to visually convey the rhythm of the text, one has produced this.

These two people groups are represented in the epic of Beowulf.

In /i/The History of the English Church and Its People/i/, Bede the Venerable writes about a man who suddenly gains the ability to do this.

This American classic novel features characters such as Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchannan, and Jordan Baker in addition to the character that gives the novel its name.

Macbeth earns the title Thane of Cawdor when his predecessor turns out to be a traitor. Macbeth already possessed this noble rank.

This poet wrote the following poem and is identifiable simply due to her predictable poetic formula.

Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me.
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

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On his death bed, Beowulf commands that the next ruler of the Geats will be this loyal character.

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From /i/The Canterbury Tales/i/, the pilgrims travel along towards Canterbury and have decided to spend their time by engaging in a contest concerning this.

In "Of Mice And Men", George promised Lenny they would own their own farm and Lenny could tend to this type of small animal.

Thought to be invented by some other playwright after Shakespeare's death, Act IV Scene i features this character, who is angry about being left out of the scheme.

This type of poetry, also known as "traditional" poetry, has strict guidelines for all the various aspects of a poem (e.g.: rhyme scheme, meter, length, shape, syllables, etc.).

The dragon that Beowulf must fight begins its rampage because a thief had broken into its den and stolen this golden, but otherwise common, object.

In a tragic ballad about rejected love and untimely death, this main character, for whom the poem is named, realizes too late that she may have caused a man to die from heartache.

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The Roman numeral system indicates that "LXXIX" stands for this value.