Green Knight Rhetoric

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the author's rhetorical purpose is to teach us about Feminism and masculism. To show men are not the other actors. In most stories with a knight the man is always the main character, in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the main character is Lady Bertilak. In the book there are many rhetorical patterns from bob and wheel to alliteration.
The first rhetorical pattern I found in the story is colors. Throughout the poem the colors green and gold repeat. Green I believe represents luck. This relates to Sir Gawain and the green chapel. He left it in honor of the people back home. The other color in the story is gold. The color gold represents money, wealth. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight do not really show money but they show a lot of power. …show more content…
Bob and Wheel is a rhyming technique. The example in the poem is “His eyes, like lightning, flashed, And it seemed to many a man, That any man who clashed With him would not long stand.” The first sentence rhymes with the third sentence and the second sentence rhymes with the fourth sentence.
Alliteration is throughout the entire poem, almost in every sentence. For example in some of the lines they have multiple “b” words or multiple “s” words. “And over his breast hung a beard as big as a bush” another is “ He brought neither shield nor spear shaft to shove or to smite”. A lot of the sentence have alliteration like these