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Title: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight


1
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
  • Part 1 Anticipation

2
1. Why does the Green Knight come seeking King
Arthur?
  • to give him a present
  • to fight him
  • to challenge him

3
2. 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

4
3.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

5
4. Who accepts the challenge first?
  • Arthur
  • Gawain
  • Guinevere

6
5.What reason does Gawain give for being the
better candidate?
  1. he is the strongest and will do the King honor
  2. he is the weakest and the challenge is beneath
    that of the king
  3. he is not scared

7
6.How is Gawain related to King Arthur?
  • son
  • uncle
  • nephew

8
7. 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

9
8.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

10
9.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

11
10. 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.

12
Who is King Arthur?
  • Warrior?
  • King?
  • Legend?

13
Bob 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)
14
Bob Wheel
  • Bob First line of the rhymed lines (5) last of
    the unrhymed lines
  • Wheel The quatrain that follows the bob (4 lines)

15
Example 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.

16
Example 1
  • Find the Alliteration in the Modern English
    version on page 9 of your packet

17
How does the structure of a piece add to the
overall theme?
18
1. Why does the Green Knight come seeking King
Arthur?
  • to give him a present
  • to fight him
  • to challenge him

19
2. 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

20
3.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

21
4. Who accepts the challenge first?
  • Arthur
  • Gawain
  • Guinevere

22
5.What reason does Gawain give for being the
better candidate?
  1. he is the strongest and will do the King honor
  2. he is the weakest and the challenge is beneath
    that of the king
  3. he is not scared

23
6.How is Gawain related to King Arthur?
  • son
  • uncle
  • nephew

24
7. 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

25
8.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

26
9.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

27
10. 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.
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