A long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero.
What is an Epic?
100
King of Uruk
What is Gilgamesh?
100
Gilgamesh was king of this place.
What is the city of Uruk?
100
The main character in a literary work.
What is a protagonist
100
The oldest piece of fictional literature known today.
What is the Gilgamesh Epic?
200
Not mortal; not subject to death; undying.
What is immortal?
200
Gilgamesh's equal; wild man
What is Enkidu?
200
Why does Gilgamesh leave Uruk after Enkidu dies?
What is to find immortality
200
What story does Utnapishtim tell Gilgamesh?
The story of the flood
200
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that supported earlier civilizations.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
Formal poems of praise and songs of grief that the living give on behalf of the dead.
What is a elegy?
300
What is the name of the beast that Enkidu and Gilgamesh kill in the forest?
What is the Humbaba?
300
A man-bird suffocates him, then he is turned into a bird and the man-bird flies him to the underworld.
What is Enkidu's dream?
300
What god came to Utnapishtim in a dream to warn him of the flood
Who is Ea
300
The epic was written in what type of script
What is cuneiform
400
Commonly used in epic poems or narratives. They are nicknames or other ways of referring to characters. ex. Utapishnam, the distant one.
What is an epithet?
400
He who saw life; immortal man; distant one. Who Gilgamesh went to, to find the secret of immortality.
Who is Utnapishtim?
400
In “The Death of Enkidu” from Gilgamesh, how is Gilgamesh advised to find pleasure?
Live life to the fullest
400
Who is Urshanabi?
The boat man
400
How was The Epic of Gilgamesh preserved?
What is on clay tablets.
500
The Balancing or contrasting of one word or phrase against another. Ex Guide us to the straight path/The path of those whom You have favored,/Not to those who have incurred/Your wrath,/Nor of those who have gone astray.
What is antithesis?
500
Who is the chief god who convinced the other gods to send down the flood.