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WorksheetsMythology Terms
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
What is a long narrative poem that begins with an invocation and focuses on a quest?
Allegory
Epic
Tall Tale
Legend
What is a nonhistorical or unverifiable story passed down through generations but commonly accepted as historical?
Allegory
Epic
Legend
Parable
What is a simple story set in the everyday world that teaches a spiritual lesson as told by Jesus or the disciples in the Gospels (Veggie Tales)?
Parable
Legend
Tall Tale
Epic
What is an object, character, place, or action that has both a literal (concrete) and a figurative (abstract) meaning?
Protagonist
Plot
Allusion
Symbol
What is a ceremony, a set of actions that has symbolic or religious value? An example would be when Odysseus brings a sacrificial ram to the prophet Tiresias.
Epic
Parable
Symbol
Ritual
What is mythology?
the study of people
the collection of all of the myths of a particular society / culture
a long narrative poem
a meaning giving story that reflects a culture’s values
To explain how the world / humanity began, man’s purpose in life, life cycles and patterns, how to live in harmony with nature, and transmit important cultural beliefs
items on my grocery list
reasons myths ended
reasons myths started
topics for your narrative essays
Of the following, which are typical myth topics?
Significant events (wars, creation, flood, etc.)
Folk heroes
Supernatural forces
Human / nonhuman relationships
All of these are myth topics
What is storytelling or the way cultures transmitted history, literature, law and other knowledge without using a writing system?
archetype
symbol
parable
oral tradition
What is an original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied, a prototype, a "super symbol"?
archetype
legend
tall-tale
oral tradition
