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