Hero's Journey
Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Archetypes
Authors
100

The 3 parts of the Hero's Journey.

What are Depature, Initiation, and Return?

100

A style of painting and sculpture.

What is cubism?

100

Oral Traditions.

What are stories verbally passed down through generations?
100

Archetypes.

What are recurring patterns of human behaviour?

100

The genre Edgar Allan Poe revolutionized.

What is horror?

200

A movie or book that follows the Hero's Journey.

Possible Answers: What is Shrek, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson.

200

Ecology.

What is science related to the system of interrelationship between organisms and their environment.

200

Hubris and Hamartia.

What are excessive pride and a fatal flaw leading to an epic hero's downfall?

200

Protagonists drive.

What is the hero's motivation to keep going?

200

Homer.

Who was the blind poet who created the Iliad and The Odyssey?

300

2 names for each world in the Hero's Journey.

Possible Answers: What are Ordinary World / Special World and Known World / Unknown World?

300

A sudden feeling of disgust or loathing.

What is revulsion?

300

The 3 forms of irony.

What are dramatic, verbal, and situational?

300

Why ancestors wrote stories.

What is to explain the unexplainable and teach lessons?

300

Who Edgar Allan Poe married.

Who was his cousin?

400

The 5 parts in the Initiation stage.

What are Crossing the Threshold; Tests, Allies, Enemies; The Approach; The Ordeal; and The Treasure.

400
Repose.

To lie dead or at rest.

400

The 5 parts of Freytag's Pyramid.

What are the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution?

400

The 8 basic archetypes.

What are the hero, the shadow, the mentor, the herald, the trickster, the shapeshifter, the ally, and the threshold guardian?

400

The Epic Cycle.

What was a collection of ancient greek poems that recounted the story of the Trojan war and other related myths?

500

The creator of the Hero's Journey concept.

Who is Joseph Campbell?

500
Fascists follow this.

What is totalitarian dictatorship?

500

Prose.

What is a style of writing that includes sentences and paragraphs instead of lines and stanzas?

500
The Collective Unconsciousness.

What is a theory that all humans are linked as a “hive-mind”, leading us to include the same archetypes in our stories without any communication?

500

When they started transcripting The Odyssey and The Iliad.

When was 300 BC?

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