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cla 210 midterm Questions and Answers
myth - answer stories primarily concerned with the gods and humankind's relations
with them

saga - answer perceptible relationship to history, however fanciful and imaginative

folktale - answer stories of adventure

etiology - answer aspect of myth that provides an explanation of a phenomenon of
the natural world or of human practices

archetype - answer a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in
literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and
to evoke a response

binary oppositions - answer a pair of opposites, thought to powerfully form and
organize human thought and culture

folktale motif - answer archetypes often found in this type of myth, such the quest in
greek mythology, or the guardian dragon.

sacred marriage - answer marriage between divine/primordial entities that represents
the forces of creation

liminal - answer an in-between state or transitional experience and/or period

abduction and consent - answer a male, often a deity, kidnaps a female, who,
despite initial alarm and/or resistance, ultimately consents to a sexual relationship,
which in some cases leads to marriage, and in others, to the birth of a heroic son in
whom the woman takes pride

epithet - answer A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or
something

anthropomorphism - answer the greek gods, who look (and act) like humans

social charter - answer the idea that myths illustrate and confirm elements of society,
giving both individuals and the society as a whole the certainty and confidence that their
social system, family stucture, religious rituals, etc. are in accordance with the world,
divine law, or however else they understand as rightness

eponymous - answer hero is usually associated with the divinely approved
establishment of an area or with substantial mythological importance in a particular area

, apotropaic - answer to the use of scary, demonic creatures to "turn away" evil in their
turn

pantheon - answer all of the gods of a given society.

demigod - answer half-god, half-human

nymph - answer female minor deities who are often personifications of the immanent
spirits of places; some are only personifications but others, fully anthropomorphized,
play a role in significant myths.

olympian deities - answer there are 14 gods who are the major offspring and siblings
at zeus

chthonian deities - answer exist in contrast to the overt and accessible gods of the
upper world; their place is hidden beneath the earth, their nature is primitive and/or
chaotic, and they are reached and worshipped by means other than community festivals
and sacrifice with shared meat

hero - answer tend to be significant in the mythology that defines the culture of the
Greeks as a people

trickster - answer a kind of figure found in many cultures whose modus operandi is
deception and defiance of authority

culture hero - answer a mythic figure who has created key advances in civilization,
technology, social practice, or ritual, that are beneficial to society and made it what it is
today

consort - answer is the wife or husband of a reigning monarch

hubris - answer a kind of arrogance that shows that you misunderstand your place in
the universe, and step out of your place in it, usually by being too bold or by thinking
you have too much power over your circumstances or too many rights over others, the
world, or the gods, or by being disrespectful consciously or unconsciously to those
whom you should respect and show proper humility toward

ate - answer "blind infatuation" that follows hubris

nemesis - answer inevitable horrible downfall or destruction that follows hubris

hamartia - answer "missing the mark," and often translated as a "fatal flaw." in
tragedy in particular, characters who are otherwise admirable have a hamartia that
ultimately brings about their tragedy

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