Key Dates
The century of the historical King Arthur
What is the 5th-6th century?
The boy who pulled the sword out of the stone.
Who is King Arthur?
“I am the weakest of your warriors and feeblest of wit; loss of my life would be least lamented.”
Who is Sir Gawain?
The central idea of a literary work.
What is theme?
Name your G8 English Teacher
Who is Mrs. Corrick?
The century when Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written
What is the 14th century?
The knight who took on the Green Knight
Who is Gawain?
"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason"
Who is Thomas Becket?
Any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value.
What is symbol?
What is 210?
The year Murder in the Cathedral was staged
What is 1935?
The wise friend who urged Roland to blow his horn.
Who is Olivier?
No, sure, my lord, my mother cried, but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
Who is Beatrice?
The point in a story’s plot where the tension is at its highest and the protagonist must make a decision. It is the turning point in the plot.
What is climax?
Name one of the novels you will read in G8 at TBCS
What is Fever, Animal Farm, or TKAM?
The year of Thomas Becket's death
What is 1170?
The knight who was tasked with throwing King Arthur's sword into the lake
Who is Sir Bedivere?
Man is a giddy thing.
Who is Benedick?
An object, quality, or idea that seems to be doing something human-like to create imagery.
What is personification?
This text features the mantra "four legs good, two legs bad"
What is Animal Farm?
The date of the battle which inspired Song of Roland
What is 778?
The accomplice of Don John who wooed Margaret
Who is Borachio?
The pagans ride down through the broader valleys…they hold up in a thicket in the hills: four hundred thousand wait for the break of day. Oh God! The French know nothing of this
Narrator of Song of Roland
The use of obvious and deliberate exaggeration...not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
Who is Boo Radley?