Tablets VI-XI
The creature Ishtar sends against Gilgamesh as revenge.
What is the bull of heaven?
The first quest Gilgamesh and Enkidu go on.
What is to kill humbaba?
The first and last thing described in the text.
What is the city wall?
The epic hero from our text.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Foreshadowing
What is a hint of something to come?
The quest Gilgamesh goes on after Enkidu dies.
What is to find Utnapishtim/immortality?
The god that help Gilgamesh kill Humbaba.
Who is Shamash?
The reason his people are upset with Gilgamesh at the beginning.
What is he is assaulting his people?
An epic hero.
What is a hero that embodies the value of a culture?
Situational irony
What is the opposite of what is expected?
The test Utnapishtim gives to Gilgamesh.
What is to stay awake for a week?
What is a curse?
The gods' response to the people's cry for help against Gilgamesh.
What is the gods create Enkidu?
The quality that ancient Mesopotamia most value in Gilgamesh.
What is strength?
Motif
What is a recurring element in a story?
This steals the sacred plant that Gilgamesh finds.
What is a snake?
The reason Gilgamesh kills Humbaba.
What is Enkidu tells him to.
The way Gilgamesh and Enkidu first meet.
What is they fight?
Daily Double
Identify all six features of an epic discussed in class.
An example of situational irony from the text.
What is When Enkidu causes Gilgamesh to become more civilized.
What Utnapishtim asks his wife to do after Gilgamesh falls asleep.
What is to bake loaves of bread?
The offer Gilgamesh receives immediately after killing Humbaba.
What is to marry Ishtar?
The event Gilgamesh is heading to when he meets Enkidu.
What is a wedding?
The reason ancient Mesopotamia valued strength so highly.
What is Uruk was vulnerable to outside attack?
This event was both an example of foreshadowing and a motif from the text.
What is Enkidu's dream about the house of dust?