Answer:
The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, referred to by scholars as the “Beowulf poet.” The poem is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.
Explanation:
A verb is the action that the subject does.
The verb in this sentence is was.
Night (the subject or noun) is doing the action of "being" quiet (the adjective since it describes the night)
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I believe it's an analogy due to USS Alabama is a monster as it is a monster to battle in war, 26 battles to be exact.