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Question 0

Myth

Answer 0

Anonymous stories that have their roots in the primitive beliefs of races or nations and present supernatural episodes as a means of interpreting natural events in an effort to make concrete and particular a special perception of man or a cosmic view.

Question 1

4 functions of Myth

Answer 1

1. Myths ease our way into the tremendous mystery of the world, making it easier to understand.
2. Myths give us a cohesive worldview in which all things fit together.
3. Myths support a moral order, telling us why some things are wrong and others right.
4. Myths help the individual to understand his role in the world as a human.

Question 2

Archetype

Answer 2

An image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore, and is therefore believed to evoke profound emotions in the reader because it awakens a primordial image in his unconscious memory, and thus calls into play illogical but powerfully resonating responses.

Question 3

Archetypes

Answer 3

Loss of innocence
The flood
Metamorphosis

Question 4

Loss of innocence mr klein

Answer 4

Andy takes hopalong cassidy gun toy, moves away

Question 5

Innocence flowchart

Answer 5

Innocence
The Event
Experienced innocence OR cynicism

Question 6

The flood characteristics

Answer 6

1. Destructive “sea”
2. A saving vessel
3. Set of survivors
4. Earth is a moral mess
5. Mountains

Question 7

John Crowe Ransom

Answer 7

1888-1974

Wrote Janet Waking(hen dies from bee stings. We forget mortality)

Question 8

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Answer 8

1845-1889
Spring and Fall: To a young child:
About mortality
It is the blight man is born for
Leaves falling make kid cry. Innocence
Mr kleins favorite poem

Question 9

Fall myth: greek vs christian

Answer 9

Woman in both

Zeua hates us and tempts, god gives us a choice

Question 10

Class Muse

Answer 10

Thalia- comedy, pastoral poetry

Question 11

Narcissus

Answer 11

Vain hunter

Nemesis gets him to look in water, stays lookint at reflection until he dies

Question 12

Hero and leander

Answer 12

Hero is aphrodite’s priestess
Leander is guy
In love. Candle goes out, leander drowns.

Question 13

Satyrs

Answer 13

Fauns.
Fertility spirits. Party w/ Dionysus
Man, horse tail, donkey ears, upturned nose, receding hair
Chase nymphs

Question 14

Circe

Answer 14

Goddess of magic
Turns odysseus’s men into pigs, she and odysseus become lovers b/c he isnt
Has a magic wand/staff

Question 15

Deucalion and Pyrrha

Answer 15

Survivors of Greek flood story

Question 16

Hecate

Answer 16

Goddess of magic, crossroads

Statues: dog, serpent, horse

Question 17

Furies

Answer 17

Goddesses of vengeance
Alecto, Tisiphone, Megaera
Also called Kind Ones

Question 18

Amazons

Answer 18

Nation of female warriors

Question 19

Arachne

Answer 19

Vain weaver
Said to be greater than athena, have weaving duel
Athena turns her into a spider

Question 20

Golden Apples

Answer 20

A hero has to retrieve

Melanion drops them in a race to slow Atalanta down

Question 21

Nemesis

Answer 21

Goddess of revnge, divine retribution