Packet 4: Bonus 1

While dreaming in a “green garden,” the speaker of a poem by this author meets a young maid who he identifies as the title object that sometimes gives this poet their name. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this unknown author, who also wrote a bob and wheel verse romance in which a nephew of King Arthur beheads the Green Knight.
ANSWER: the Pearl Poet [accept the Gawain Poet]
[10e] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight also uses a type of verse named for this literary device. This literary device is the repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as in the name “Pearl Poet.”
ANSWER: alliteration [accept alliterative verse]
[10m] The Pearl Poet wrote in this language also used by Geoffrey Chaucer. It displaced the language used to write Beowulf.
ANSWER: Middle English [prompt on English]
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