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Vocabulary
The Hero's Journey
King Arthur
100
He is the most courteous of the land
Who is Sir Gawain?
100
What season does the Green Knight visit Camelot?
What is winter/Christmastime/New Years?
100
An adjective used to describe the color of the lord's beard
What is beaver-hued?
100
Name the first stage in the hero's journey
What is the call to adventure?
100
King Arthur's capital
What is Camelot
200
He accepts the challenge, but is his knight takes on the challenge instead.
Who is King Arthur?
200
The Green Knight's challenge when he enters the feast
What is the raising of the ax?
200
The word that describes Sir Gawain's mannerism
What is chivalric?
200
Name two stages of the return.
Refusal, crossing of the threshold, rescue from without
200
Wife of King Arthur
Who is Queen Guinevere?
300
She is the fairest of the land, but a true temptress.
Who is the Lady?
300
Name two times Sir Gawain demonstrates his weakness.
Winter and during the challenge against the Green Knight
300
v. to call out with a loud voice
What is hallooing?
300
Describe the refusal of the call.
Often when the call is given, the future hero refuses to heed it. This may be from a sense of duty or obligation, fear, insecurity, or any of a range of reasons that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstances.
300
Arthur became king by doing this
Pulling the sword from the stone
400
He is covered in red and gold, ready to gallop on the journey.
Who is Gringolet?
400
What trial does Sir Gawain face with the lady?
Her temptation
400
Used to describe Sir Gawain and the Green Knight's Meeting
What is tryst?
400
Name three stages in Sir Gawain's journey and describe them.
Any hero stage.
400
The people who Arthur came to save
Who are the British?
500
Surprisingly, he is the Green Knight.
Who is the lord (the man who served Sir Gawain) ?
500
Describe the Green Knight's chapel in three words
Answers may vary.
500
The huntsmen prepared this for their feast
What is haslets?
500
Name all of the stages of the hero's journey
call to adventure, refusal of the call, beginning of adventure, mentor/supernatural aid, road of trial, temptress/love, the ultimate boon, refusal of return, rescue from without, and master of two worlds
500
This makes King Arthur a hypocrite in the story
He tells Guinevere not to be afraid, but he is frighten by the Green Knight for Sir Gawain. We usually see King Arthur as mighty and powerful.