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Ballads
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Canterbury Tales
King Arthur Tales
100
Works written in the native language.
What is the vernacular?
100
The number of lines usually associated with ballads.
What is 4?
100
The Green Knight wants to play this kind of game
What is a "blow-for-a-blow" game?
100
The pilgrims travel to Canterbury to worship at this murdered man's cathedral.
Who is Thomas a Beckett?
100
This female takes back Excalibur upon Arthur's death.
Who is the Lady of the Lake?
200
This sets up a story within a story concept, such as in The Canterbury Tales.
What is a frame story?
200
This common ballad feature reflects real life.
What is a tragedy?
200
The Lord of the castle arranges this.
What is his wife's seduction of Sir Gawain?
200
Each rider will do this for a chance to win a free meal.
What is telling stories?
200
First he claims he pulled the sword out of the stone but then recants.
Who is Sir Kay?
300
Stories of an English king and his knights.
What are Arthurian Legends?
300
The rhyme scheme for most ballads is this?
What is abcb?
300
This is heard through the Green Knight's valley as Sir Gawain nears the meeting day.
What is sound of grinding metal sharpening blades?
300
This group includes the nobility, clergy, and commoners.
Who are the Canterbury Tales pilgrims?
300
The person responsible for disguising Uther Pendragon to trick Igraine.
Who is Merlin?
400
A verse narrative of a brave knight undertaking a quest for a lady.
What is a chivalric romance?
400
Ballads rely on undeveloped settings but much of this.
What is dialogue?
400
Gawain loves his life and wants this to protect him.
What is the green sash?
400
The use of a character that represents an idea, such as the Old Man representing Death in the "Pardoner's Tale."
What is an allegory (a story that operates on the literal and symbolic level)?
400
This starts the battle between Arthur and Mordred a month too early.
What is a snake bite?
500
Stories surrounding the cup Jesus supposedly used at the Last Supper.
What are Grail Legends?
500
This type of repetition builds suspense.
What is "incremental repetition"?
500
Typical of romances, this idea is personified through the decapitated Green Knight riding away with his talking head.
What is a shape-changer (shape-shifter)?
500
In "The Wife of Bath" tale, these are the Knight's arguments why he can't love the old woman who saved his life.
What are true gentility (low-status), poverty, and old age?
500
The last Knight of the Round Table to assist Arthur.
Who is Bedivere?