Archetypes
The number of archetypes we went over.
What is eight?
This is the name of the step in the HJ that shows that the hero has committed to the journey and moves from the Ordinary World to the Underworld.
What is Crossing the Threshold
The principal (main) character in a work of fiction (Hint: It’s not Hero)
What is the protagonist?
This is the title of the BOOK that was made into two films about a boy winning a golden ticket to tour a chocolate factory.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
This is the most-used letter in the English Language. (HINT: It’s a vowel!)
What is an "E"?
Darth Sidious, Voldemort, Scar, the Green Goblin are all this archetype.
What is the Shadow?
This step of the HJ is shown when Miguel enters a Talent Show in his town for Day of the Dead.
What is Call to Adventure
S.T.E.A.L. is an acronym that we used earlier this year to identify this.
The 2004 adaptation of this classic picture book featured a train conductor played by Tom Hanks. (HINT: It’s a Christmas movie!)
“The ABC Song” is set to the melody of this popular children’s song.
What is "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"?
The sidekick who assists the hero.
What is the Ally?
This is the step of the HJ in which the hero faces their greatest fear and most difficult challenge
What is the Ordeal
What characters say out loud in a text
What is dialogue?
Suzanne Collins wrote this dystopian series that was adapted into four movies set in a fictional place called Panem.
This is the name of the only planet in our Solar System NOT named after a Greek or Roman God.
What is Earth?
True
It’s another name for “The Hero’s Journey.”
The Monomyth
A brief, unexplained reference to a person, an event, a place, or a work of art outside of the text itself.
What is an allusion?
This is the type of animal Aslan is in The Chronicles of Narnia series.
This is the name of the famous playwright you can name by unscrambling these letters:
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What is William Shakespeare
In the Alchemist, the King of Salem was this type of archetype.
The Mentor
True of False: you can skip some steps with the Hero's Journey
True
A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself
(Hint: The Alchemist is one!)
What is an allegory?
The Lion King is based on this Shakespeare play.
What is Hamlet?
This is a word or phrase that is spelled the same forwards and backwards, like “Racecar” or “Taco Cat”
What is a palindrome?