Using the writer's life experiences to analyze and respond to a text.
What is biographical approach?
100
Arthur is the illegitimate child of Igraine and this man.
Who is King Uther?
100
Launcelot fell in love with this woman, which caused problems in the kingdom of Camelot.
Who is Gwynevere, Arthur's wife?
100
Theseus is set in this part of the world.
What is Greece?
100
Regin, the blacksmith, is this kind of being.
What is a dwarf?
200
Using the time period in which a text was written to help analyze and respond to the work
What is historical approach?
200
He gave Arthur to Sir Ector to be raised.
Who is Merlin?
200
While on a quest, Launcelot fell asleep beneath an apple tree and was captured by these people.
Who are the four queens?
200
Theseus first traveled to Athens this way because it was more dangerous.
What is by land?
200
Regin's brother, Fafnir.
What is a dragon?
300
Stories that are closely linked to a particular society, that are basically religious, and that reflect the values of the society.
What are myths?
300
Arthur pulled the sword out of the stone for this person.
Who is Sir Kay?
300
Launcelot was given a night to decide this.
What is which queen he would choose as his lover?
300
The king of Athens had to do this every 9 years to atone for the death of the son of King Minos of Crete.
What is send 7 girls and 7 boys to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur?
300
He gives Sigurd a magnificent gray horse.
Who is Odin, king of the gods?
400
Stories based on real events that have taken on magical or supernatural elements.
What are legends?
400
They protested against Arthur becoming king because he was so young.
Who are the nobles?
400
King Bagdemagus' daughter helps Launcelot to do this.
What is escape from the four queens?
400
Because she was in love with Theseus, Minos' daughter Ariadne gave this to him so that he could find his way out of the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur.
What is a ball of string?
400
How Sigurd slays the dragon.
What is by lying in a pit in the path and stabbing Fafnir in the belly?
500
These stories got their name because they were first told in Old French and Provençal, languages derived from Latin, the language of the Romans.
What are romances?
500
They demanded that Arthur should be made king after he pulled the sword out of the stone a fourth time.
Who are the commoners?
500
Launcelot does this for King Bagdemagus at the tournament.
What is defeat all of the other knights?
500
Although Theseus because king when he returned to Athens, he did this.
What is resign his royal power and start a commonwealth?
500
How Sigurd learns that Regin plans to murder him.
What is by tasting the fat from the dragon's heart and becoming wise?