The hero commits to leaving the Ordinary World and enters the Special World.
What is Crossing the Threshold?
100
A noun phrase used to describe characters instead of an author/poet having to go into great detail.
What is an epithet?
100
What type of poetry were Arabic/Persian women allowed to write?
What is the elegy?
100
"First and foremost" (which can be found at the beginning of the second paragraph) can be identified by which syntactical revision technique in making writing flow?
What is a transition?
100
The Persian poet is known for his poems to their romantic tone and universal messages.
Who is Rumi?
200
A pattern that is followed by all or nearly all things of the same kind.
What is an Archetype?
200
A long narrative about a serious or worthy traditional subject.
What is an Epic?
200
What is the difference in when/how a criminal is introduced in Western versus Eastern literature?
What is Western: Criminals are identified at the end of a story line, but in Eastern, criminals are identified early on in the story.
200
The bold and italicized sentence in the second paragraph is an example of what type of sentence (related to argument writing).
What is the counterclaim?
200
This author is known as the first and greatest of the epic poets.
Who is Homer?
300
The man who discovered that hero myths are all the same story.
Who is Joseph Campbell?
300
An epic poem or narrative begins at what point in the story?
What is In Media Res?
300
Who is the author who devised a plot formula for the mystery genre?
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
300
Thinking about an opposite argument, take a look at the very last sentence of the second paragraph. What word is used to classify that type of sentence?
What is refutation?
300
Who is the author of The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Who is an unknown author?
400
Part of the Hero's Journey when the hero confronts death or faces his/her greatest fear.
What is the Abyss/Ordeal/Crisis Point?
400
What literary device is used to tell information about events leading up to the start of an epic poem?
What are flashbacks?
400
What is the Greek word that means being the best at something?
What is Aristos?
400
Take a look at your Sample Synthesis/Argument Essay. Find the claim which is identified by the number 3. How can we make that regular, plain claim into a substantive claim?
What is by adding specific reasons why advertising is necessary.
400
Who is the protagonist in the best selling series of Chinese Detective Fiction?
Who is Judge Dee?
500
The one word used synonymously with the Hero's Journey. (The man who discovered the Hero's Journey pattern used this word to refer to the Hero's Journey.)
What is the Monomyth?
500
Requesting aid in the form of creativity.
What is the Invocation of the Muse?
500
The Epic of Gilgamesh is set up as a story within a story - meaning an introductory or main narrative is presented for the purpose of setting the stage for a more emphasized second narrative. What is the literary term used to describe this type of story?
What is a framing story?
500
In argument writing, what is the purpose of the concession sentence?
What is to validate the opposite opinion's point of view.
500
Contemporaries referred to this Chinese poet as "the banished immortal."