What is distinctive about the shape of the table in King Arthur's court?
What is it is round/circular?
100
What color are the Green Knight's eyes?
What is red?
100
Agon, pathos, and anagnorisis are the three stages of the quest, according to Northrop Frye. What do those three terms mean?
What is conflict, death-struggle, and discovery or recognition of the hero?
100
Who wrote the poem?
Who is unknown/Pearl-Poet/Gawain-Poet?
200
What is the name of Gawain's horse?
What is Gringolet?
200
Why is Gawain surprised by the Green Chapel?
What is because it is a mound/cave - not anything like a traditional chapel?
200
What two things does the Green Knight carry when he enters Camelot?
What is holly and his ax?
200
What type of realism is the poet trying to create by including details such as Gawain being unable to sleep the night before the confrontation with the Green Knight?
What is psychological realism?
200
Who is described as "without flaw" (81) and possessing "eyes of grey" (82)?
Who is Lady Guenevere?
300
Gawain breaks his deal with Lord Bertilak when he fails to disclose this.
What is taking the girdle?
300
How many buildings does Gawain enter over the course of the poem, and what are their names?
What is 3 - Camelot, Castle Hautdesert, and the Green Chapel?
300
What do the Knights of the Round Table do with the Green Knight's ax?
What is mount it on the wall?
300
What narrative structure does the poet utilize that is an essential plot feature in Western literature?
What is departure and return?
300
Who has "[a] green horse great and thick" (175)?
Who is the Green Knight?
400
At the end, Gawain lists off a bunch of biblical figures to curse __________.
What is women?
400
When Gawain comes across Lord Bertilak's castle in the wilderness, it seems to be made of what unusual material?
What is paper?
400
What is the Green Knight doing when Gawain arrives at the Green Chapel?
What is sharpening his ax?
400
What is the purpose of the dualistic structure that uses parallel scenes (e.g. two arming scenes, two beheading scenes, etc.)?
What is to get us to compare the second instances with the first and evaluate what has changed?
400
Who does the Green Knight consider to be "polished as a pearl, as pure and as bright" (2393)?
Who is Gawain?
500
What are the two images on Gawain's shield?
What is the pentangle and the Virgin Mary?
500
What do the seating arrangements in Lord Bertilak's castle tell us?
What is that Lord Bertilak isn't in control of his court - the crone is?
500
The Green Knight disguises himself as Lord Bertilak. What three animals does he hunt and kill while he hosts Gawain?
What is a deer, a boar, and a fox?
500
What are two methods the poet uses to build suspense?
What is withholding information, offering alternatives in the action, and delaying the action?
500
The Green Knight describes the mastermind of the plot's events by saying that "[n]one holds so high degree / [t]hat her arts cannot subdue" (2454-2455). What is her name and who is she to Gawain?