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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Flashcards

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What type of verse and style is the poem part of what?

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Verse form
A metrical romance (french influence)
Part of alliterative revival

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Who is the author describe what we know about him

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Unknown

Assume he was a cleric wrote other religious poems

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What does the poem show in regards to it being part of alliterative revival

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Shows a renewed interest in alliterative verse of the old english period

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How is this poem written

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Unique stanza called bob and wheel

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What is the bob and wheel stanza

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Combines alliteration and rhyme
Verse paragraph of long alliterative lines 
Concluded by  a two syllable line 
Followed by a quatrain 
Last five lines rhyme ababa
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5
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How many traditional plots are intertwined

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3
The beheading contest
Temptation
Exchange game

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What are the be heading and temptation found in

What is the purpose of all three

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Beheading and temptation are ancient Celtic themes

Overall purpose is to test the worth of the Christian knight

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Give an overview on poem

Viewpoint

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Comical and satirical

Christian viewpoint

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It is the product of how many institutions

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Feudalism
Courtly love
The medieval church

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Golden age of chivalry

exemplifies physical and nonphysical ideas of knighthood

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Feudalism

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Name the physical ideals of knighthood

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Strength
Skill at arms
Horsemanship

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What are the non physical ideals of knighthood

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Courage
Humility
Courtesy
Loyalty

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What does Gawain represent

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The human possible

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Cult of Mary, which elevated women

Love was to be worshipped from afar as an ideal

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Courtly love

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Behavior of court and temptation scenes reflect

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Courtly love tradition

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Only religious figure

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Chaplain

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What does the story undermine and offset

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Undermines the system of courtly love

Offset the immortality of the courtly love tradition

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Green chapel

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Where knight lives

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Evidence of catholic/ Christianity

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Catholic holidays

Lent 
St. John's Day
Prays to Mary 
Mass
Pentangle- rosary
19
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Exchange game

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Between lord and Gawain

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Two women

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Beautiful vs ugly

21
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Supernatural

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Green knight head cut off still lives and puts back on

Gawain prays and castle appears

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Motifs and symbols

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Christmas/ new year
Testing
Mary
Pen tangle

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Rebirth new beginning

Ties with concept of a year and a day

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Christmas/ New Year

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King Arthur’s court tested by other world
Beheading test
Hunting test
Temptation test

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Testing

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Religious figure

Christian symbol of chastity and honor

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Mary

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Endless knot
Sign of Solomon
Five sorrows of cross/ wound of Christ

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Pentangle

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Five joys of Mary, five knightly virtues

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Benefice
Brotherly love
Pure mind
Pure manners
Compassion
28
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Animals hunted and what symbolize

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Deer 
Boar
Fox 
Symbolize lady's approaches to Gawain
First meek, then bearish, then sly
29
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What number is significant give examples

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3
3 temptations
3 animals hunted
3 kisses
3 signs of cross
30
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Gawains secret and lie he denied ring offered previously

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Girdle

31
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Catholic influence

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Each day began with mass

32
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Green knight swings his axe how many times at Gawain

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Three

Third time Knicks him

33
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What does the green knight do

After he swings three times

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Absolves him and says

I hold you polished as a pearl

34
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Why does Gawain keep the girdle

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To lower his pride and remind himself of sin

35
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Who is

The green knight

A

Bertilak de hautdesert

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Who is Morgan le faye

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King Arthur’s half sister and merlins mistress

Old withered crone at castle

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What was the purpose of the whole sha bam

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To test the pride of Arthur’s Knights of the round table

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Example of honor

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Sir Gawain keeps his word and goes on quest to find green knight

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Example of bravery

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Sir Gawain accepts the challenge of the green knight and is alone in the woods in the winter

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Example of courtesy

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King Arthur will not eat until all his guests are served

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Example of humility

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Gawain says he is loneliest of all Knights

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Example of loyalty

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Gawain is loyal to his king and keeps his word

Loyal to Mary and God by keeping from sinning

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