Short Stories Character Archetypes Situational Archetypes OedipusVocabulary
Answer 1 – 20 Character
Question The time and place of the action in a story.
Answer 1 – 10 Setting
Question A person or creature that participates in the action of a story.
Question The writer states what a character is like.
Answer 1 – 30 Direct Characterization
Question Revealed by the narrator including 1 st person, 3 rd omniscient and 3 rd person limited
Answer 1 – 40 Point of View
Question The writer reveals what a character is like through dialogue and actions.
Answer 1 – 50 Indirect Characterization
Question Who is the hero?
Answer 2 – 10 Gilgamesh
Question Who is the mentor?
Answer 2 – 20 Utnapishtim
Question Which character can be classified as the hunting group of companions (sidekick)?
Answer 2 – 30 Enkidu
Question Who is the creature of nightmare?
Answer 2 – 40 Humbaba
Question What is the shadow?
Answer 2 – 50 Death
Question A basic plot, character, symbol, or idea that recurs in the literature of many cultures.
Answer 3 – 10 Archetype
Question What situational archetype takes place when Gilgamesh loses the flower to the Serpent?
Answer 3 – 20 The fall
Question What relationship is exemplifies when Gilgamesh asks Utnapishtim how to become immortal?
Answer 3 – 30 Mentor/Pupil relationship
Question What is Gilgamesh’s task?
Answer 3 – 40 Search for immortality
Question What situational archetype is used when Gilgamesh asks Shamash for help defeating Humbaba?
Answer 3 – 50 Supernatural Intervention
Question What is the cause of the plague, according to the Oracle?
Answer 4 – 10 King Laius’ murderer is living in Thebes.
Question How has Oedipus helped Thebes in the past?
Answer 4 – 20 Saved them from the Sphinx
Question The destruction of Oedipus, a tragic hero, is caused by a mistake or unwise decision or a weakness known as a…
Answer 4 – 30 Tragic Flaw
Question In Oedipus the King, Part II, when Jocasta says, “It was from [Polybus] Oedipus fled, lest he should be his murderer!” the audience is aware of a dramatic irony. What is the irony?
Answer 4 – 40 The audience knows that Oedipus really did kill his father.
Question Given his hubris, or excessive pride, what makes Oedipus think that Creon is plotting against him in Oedipus the King, Part I?
Answer 4 – 50 Wild assumptions
Question Because the situation is changing so rapidly, any plans we make to deal with the emergency can be no more than ______ ____________________ _.
Answer 5 – 10 Tentative
Question (adjective) given to fighting, warlike; combative, aggressive
Answer 5 – 20 Belligerent
Question (verb) to regard highly
Answer 5 – 30 Esteem
Question (adjective) having limits; lasting for a limited time
Answer 5 – 40 Finite
Question (adjective) peaceable, friendly
Answer 5 – 50 Amicable