In the story Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the author uses rhetorical patterns throughout the poem. The purpose of this is to entertain the reader and to keep the reader’s attention. It’s also to get the reader’s interested and make them want to read more. One rhetorical pattern used in the poem is repetition. An example of this pattern in the poem is “ So monstrous a mount, so mighty a man”. It is repetition since it uses the words so and a more than once so close together. This pattern ties to the purpose since this pattern can draw the reader’s attention and also place some emphasis on lines. Another rhetorical pattern in the poem is alliteration. A time this is used in the text is “And both were bound up with a
