LITERATURE ENGLISH

In Literature, allusion is a reference to a person, an event, or place in which a reader is deemed familliar. In the Summerian epic, Gilgamesh, what biblical allusion was used?

• The Ten Commandments

• The Great Flood

• The Exodus

• The Last Supper

Symbol is a representation of something beyond itself. In the "Odyssey"of Homer, what is the best symbolism of the " wedding bed"

• Life for Telemachus

• Love of Family

• Constancy of Odysseus and Penelope's love

• Hope for the return of Odysseus

Which is the theme of Gilgamesh?

• Importance of love and Friendship

• Value of self-worth and acoomplishment

• Preferences to immorality/lasting fame thought performing great deeds

• Significance of death

"Even a stone can shiver and bleed"was a line uttered by Antieleia Odysseus' mother, before she drowned herself because she could no longer endure the pain of waiting for her son's return. What figure of speech best illustrates the quoted line?

• Hyperbole

• Meiosis

• Metonymy

• Meiosis

"The Song of Hiawatha", an American Indian epic, tells of the origin of the Indian maize. What function does this myth have?

• Explanation

• Validation/justification

• Description

• Inspiration

According to a Greek writer, certain gods were originally great people venerated because of their benefactions to mankind. What Philosophy in the study of the myths , tells us this?

• Romanticism

• Euhemerism

• Rationalism

• Structuralism

Which are the simplest forms of folktales? There is not much plot involved, but they carry a lot of rhythm. Events follow each other logically in a pattern of cadence and repetition.

• Cumulative Tales

• Drolls

• Romances

• Realistic Tales

Many myths tells ritual and cultic customs. In ancient Mesopotamia, the creation epic Emma Elish which was read each New Year at Babylon, celebrated the progress of the cosmos from initial anarchy to government by the kingship of Marduk; hence the myth functions as_____of the authority of earthly rulers andof earthly monarchy it general.

• Explanation

• Justification/Validation

• Description

• Inspiration

The Primitive deity Aphrodite represents________

• The magical function of procreation

• Physical beauty and grace

• Intelligence, wit, and sex

• Woman of purity of life and mind

The myths of the Greeks reflects

• That humans are centered of the universe

• That humans and gods live alike

• A view of the universe that acknowledges the mystery and beauty of humanity

• a less strange and frightening magic than the myths of other ancient civilizations