Margery Kempe
The Legend of King Arthur
Literary Devices/Tools
Medieval Romances
Potpourri
100
Margery Kempe wrote this type of literature (a story about herself).
What is an autobiography?
100
Arthur discovered his royalty by completing this legendary task.
What is pulling the sword from the stone?
100
A person or creature who uses strength or supernatural abilities to cause harm to others.
What is a villain?
100
One characteristic of a Medieval Romance is the main character. He is referred to by this hyphenated name.
What is a hero-knight?
100
This online multi-player game hosted by Blizzard is home to more than 10 million players.
What is World of Warcraft?
200
Margery Kempe was illiterate so she created her story this way.
What is by having scribes write it for her?
200
Arthur had a personal wizard named this who came up with various quests for him.
Who is Merlin?
200
When an author tells the reader directly about the characters in the story. "He was a cruel and smelly man."
What is direct characterization?
200
In Sir Gawain, an example of this characteristic of a Medieval Romance came from the idea of an all green man and the action of him picking up his head after it had been chopped off!
What is supernatural events?
200
This brand of car has the slogan "Like a Rock".
What is Chevy?
300
Margery Kempe's first job was this.
What is working at a brewery?
300
Arthur's death came after he asked his knight, Bedivere, to throw this into a lake.
What is his sword (excalibur)?
300
Green (in Sir Gawain) is symbolic of this.
What is magic?
300
Medieval Romances often contained this type of love - often characterized by adultry.
What is Courtly Love?
300
This now political figure once played Mr. Freeze in a Batman movie.
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
400
Margery Kempe's job at a horse mill failed because of this.
What is the horses refused to move?
400
Arthur married this beautiful woman.
What is Lady Gueniviere?
400
Many of the stories that we have read, in order to make them more interesting, are told using this device: the repetition of sounds at the end of each line.
What is rhyme?
400
King Arthur uses repetition of this when Arthur has the sword thrown in the lake and again when the lady's hand catches the sword.
What is the number three?
400
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Knights of the Round Table are plagued by this opposing group of knights who demand...a shrubbery!
Who are "The Knights who say Ni"?
500
Margery Kempe's story was unique because of the use of this voice (she referred to herself as "the creature").
What is third person?
500
Arthur's death came as a result of the war caused by this act of "courtly love".
What is Lancelot's affair with Arthur's wife?
500
A two word metaphorical replacement name for something (used in Beowulf).
What are kennings?
500
Arthur's birth is "shrouded in mystery" because of this.
What is he was adopted (or doesn't know his parents).
500
This old children's TV show theme song begins with the line "Come in and pull yourself up a chair (that's Chairy)" and stars a man who later was arrested in a movie theatre.
What is Pee-Wee's Playhouse?