Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word within a book. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers or it may follow in the next sentence. A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection.
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It describes how Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, accepts a challenge from a mysterious “Green Knight” who challenges any knight to strike him with his axe if he will take a return blow in a year and a day.
He could have chosen red for strength and power or purple for royalty and wealth, but instead he chose green. The green knight has green tinted skin and features, a green holly branch, a green axe, and a green horse. Green is known to stand for peace, restfulness, harmony, lust, love, fertility, and nature.
The Green Knight's plan is to test the court. He wants to test one of Arthur's knights. Because of their fame and how well they are known for their chivalry and courage, the Green Knight seizes this as an opportunity to place before them a challenge. Sir Gawain takes on the challenge.
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