Vocabulary
A face or expression of contempt.
What is a Sneer?
The hero of the story, the main character that goes through change.
What is the Protagonist?
This type of story has no single author, but is the product of a specific group of people at a specific time. It often has many monsters, gods, and heroes.
What is a myth?
The Hero's Journey begins in the ordinary world with this stage.
What is "The Call to Adventure?"
This man had a terrible accident that taught us about the brain.
Who is Phineas Gage?
A feeling of excitement, adjective.
What is Zeal?
The "bad guy" or enemy of the story, the one who fights the protagonist.
What is the Antagonist?
This kind of story focuses on the interactions between two main characters, most often a man and a woman, and the act of them falling in love.
What is a Romance?
The hero's journey truly begins when he enters this world.
What is the Unknown World?
This girl lived through a turbulent time in China, and later wrote an autobiography about living through the Communist purge.
Who is Ji-Li Jiang?
This word means immense beyond imagination.
What is Brobdingnagian?
The sequence of events in the story, the "moment to moment" part that focuses on what happens to the characters.
What is the plot?
This kind of story often focuses on a journey or quest, and often has many challenges a powerful antagonist.
What is an adventure?
The Revelation stage is characterized by these two parts.
What is Death and Rebirth?
Known as "The Deathless," this legendary sorcerer also had an eyeless horse that could still see.
Who is Koschei the Deathless?
A person that lives outside their native country
What is an expatriate?
The underlying idea of the story, often not explicitly said but implied through word choice and ideas.
What is the theme?
This kind of story often has elements of magic or legend, and was made popular in the 20th Century by authors like J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) and C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia).
What is a fantasy?
The Hero's Journey is modelled on this shape, which has no beginning and no end.
What is a circle?
These two friends played for the Chicago Bears.
Who are Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo?
This word means to have an intense dislike or disdain for something.
What is contemptuous?
Sometimes called "reading between the lines," this is the literary device that allows the reader to see what the author is saying without explicitly writing it.
What is an inference?
This kind of story began to come into being in 1895, when H.G. Wells published "The Time Machine," and became more popular in 1912 when Edgar Rice Burroughs published "A Princess of Mars."
What is Science Fiction?
Merlin in King Arthur, Tars Tarkas in Princess of Mars, Weena in the Time Machine, aare all examples of this type of character.
What is the Helper/Mentor?
These two friends ended their friendship over breaking sticks.
Who are Thunder and Turtle?