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Myths and Folklore
Myths and Folklore
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Review Game for 10th Grade English
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1
Why does Theseus's father kill himself?
Theseus abandons Ariadne
Theseus forgets to change the flag on his ship
Theseus is killed by the minotaur
Theseus never returned home
2
What is a moral?
Lesson Taught
A theme or symbol found in multiple texts
The Wrong Way
IDK
3
Origin of death is shown in which story
Theseus
Lambert the Sheepish Lion
Isis and Osiris
Girl Trapped in Mud for 55 hours
4
In the Theseus myth she helps him find his way through the labyrinth?
Ariadne
Isis
Miss Strangeworth
Tris
5
a pattern that serves as the basis for different, but related, versions of literary elements
trickster
motif
myth
archetype
6
"...And of Clay We Are Created" is based on what event
The Great Burning
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
A sumarian flood
Mudslide in Colombia
7
In most creation stories, the world begins with what
all things equally divided
the sun and the moon
nothing, void, water
human
8
This kind of character exhibits cunning and mischief or thedarker side of human nature with wit
frog
Lonely god
Trickster
a King
9
In the Isis and Osiris myth, he is the one who locks Osiris in the chest
Seth
Prometheus
Isis
None of the Above
10
True or False: Folktales usually focus on gods and goddesses
False
True
11
The grasshopper and the ants is an example of
Creation Story
Jacktale
Parable
Fable
12
A characteristic of an origin myth is
clash between gods and goddesses for power
creation of humans
lonely creator
separation of original matter of the universe
13
What is one characteristic that John (By the Waters of Babylon) and Tris (Divergent) share
naive and have to choose own path
happy in their home life
foolish
son of a priest
14
Which of the following is an example of a trickster?
Reynard
Coyote
Anansi
Jack
15
One difference between a Mythic Hero and a Folktale Hero is
Folktale Hero's win is for society
Mythic Hero's win is for society
quest
mythic hero's win is for himself
16
Origin Myths explain
How things came to be
nothing
the behavior of others
how a car works
17
This type of Folklore includes a naive, yet kind fellow named Jack
Fable
Parable
Jacktale
Creation Myth
18
A journey taken in search of a person or object of great value is called
a motif
a quest
a wandering
19
in fables beasts will usually represent some quality. A sheep typically represents what?
Leader
Sly
Stubborn
Follower
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A folktale is
a poem consisting of 14 lines and distinct rhyme scheme
a story that explains how things came to be
a long poem of a hero written in dactylic hexameter
created by folk and passed orally from each generation