Title: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
1Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
21. Why does the Green Knight come seeking King
Arthur?
- to give him a present
- to fight him
- to challenge him
32. What is the challenge that he offers them?
- you chop my head off and Ill chop your head off
later - b. you eat my soup and Ill eat your soup later
- c. fight me in hand to hand combat
43.Why does the Green Knight mock them?
- because no one accepts the challenge
- because he wants to make them mad
- because he is a mean person
54. Who accepts the challenge first?
65.What reason does Gawain give for being the
better candidate?
- he is the strongest and will do the King honor
- he is the weakest and the challenge is beneath
that of the king - he is not scared
76.How is Gawain related to King Arthur?
87. What happens when Gawain swings the ax at the
Green Knights neck?
- the knight is saved by a goddess
- the knight lifts his arm to protect himself and
his arm is chopped off - the knights head rolls off and sits on the floor
98.How does the Green Knight leave?
- he runs away while the members of the court, who
have turned into an angry mob, chase him. - he doesnt
- he picks his head up off the floor and carries it
to his horse, mounts, and rides away
109.What is Gawain supposed to do in 12 months?
- duel Arthur for Guineveres hand
- bury the Green Knight at the Green Chapel
- allow the Green Knight to take a swing at his own
head
1110. What do Gawain and Arthur do after the Green
Knight rides away?
- try to clear the air and then party on
- lock all the doors and make everyone vow not to
let the Green Knight in again - put the Green Knight in the dungeon so he can
never hurt anyone again.
12Who is King Arthur?
13Bob Wheel
Repetition of Initial Consonant Sounds
Alliteration
Repetition of Similar Sounds in 2 or more words
- Alliterative voice
- Group of 5 rhymed lines
- Following unrhymed lines
- At the end of a strophe
rhyme
strophe
Structure of the rhyme (in this case, ABABA)
14Bob Wheel
- Bob First line of the rhymed lines (5) last of
the unrhymed lines - Wheel The quatrain that follows the bob (4 lines)
15Example 1
- Sithen the sege and the assut was sesed at
Troye, - The borgh brittened and brent to brondes and
askes,The tulk that the trammes of tresoun ther
wroghtWas tried for his tricherie, the trewest
on erthe--Hit was Ennias the athel and highe
kynde,That sithen depreced provinces and
patrounes bicomeWelneghe of al the wele in the
west iles.Fro riche Romulus to Rome ricchis hym
swythe,With gret bobbaunce that burghe he biges
upon fyrst,And nevenes hit his aune nome, as hit
now hat.Ticius to Tuskan and teldes
bigynnes,Langaberde in Lumbardie lyftes up
homes,And fer over the French flod Felix
BrutusOn mony bonkkes ful brode Bretayn he
settes with wynne, - Where werre and wrake and wonderBi sythes has
wont therinne,And oft bothe blysse and
blunderFul skete has skyfted synne.
16Example 1
- Find the Alliteration in the Modern English
version on page 9 of your packet
17How does the structure of a piece add to the
overall theme?
181. Why does the Green Knight come seeking King
Arthur?
- to give him a present
- to fight him
- to challenge him
192. What is the challenge that he offers them?
- you chop my head off and Ill chop your head off
later - b. you eat my soup and Ill eat your soup later
- c. fight me in hand to hand combat
203.Why does the Green Knight mock them?
- because no one accepts the challenge
- because he wants to make them mad
- because he is a mean person
214. Who accepts the challenge first?
225.What reason does Gawain give for being the
better candidate?
- he is the strongest and will do the King honor
- he is the weakest and the challenge is beneath
that of the king - he is not scared
236.How is Gawain related to King Arthur?
247. What happens when Gawain swings the ax at the
Green Knights neck?
- the knight is saved by a goddess
- the knight lifts his arm to protect himself and
his arm is chopped off - the knights head rolls off and sits on the floor
258.How does the Green Knight leave?
- he runs away while the members of the court, who
have turned into an angry mob, chase him. - he doesnt
- he picks his head up off the floor and carries it
to his horse, mounts, and rides away
269.What is Gawain supposed to do in 12 months?
- duel Arthur for Guineveres hand
- bury the Green Knight at the Green Chapel
- allow the Green Knight to take a swing at his own
head
2710. What do Gawain and Arthur do after the Green
Knight rides away?
- try to clear the air and then party on
- lock all the doors and make everyone vow not to
let the Green Knight in again - put the Green Knight in the dungeon so he can
never hurt anyone again.