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Types of Love
Rumi
Mythology
Plot
Dramatic Structure
100
Passionate love between two people, such as Romeo & Juliet.
What is Eros?
100
Opens his hand to the universe and begs to give of themselves.
Who is a Sufi?
100
Aristophane's speech on the origin of love took place at this event.
What is Plato's Symposium?
100
When all of the events in a story take place in chronological order.
What is unified plot?
100
The point of greatest tension in a story.
What is the climax?
200
Love that one may have for God; unconditional and unrequited.
What is Agape?
200
A physical expression of one's union with god.
What is the dervish whirling dance?
200
To teach a lesson.
What is one of the purposes of myths?
200
Plots that move backward and forward in time.
What is an episodic plot?
200
The audience is left with loose ends and unanswered questions.
What is an open denoument?
300
Famous examples of this type of love include Starsky & Hutch, Sherlock Holmes & Watson, Thelma & Louise.
What is Philia?
300
A wandering Sufi who became Rumi's Master Teacher.
Who is Shams?
300
To explain how something was created or why it is how it is.
What is one of the purposes of myths?
300
A scene relived in a character's memory.
What is a flashback?
300
Some circumstance that shakes up the stable situation.
What is the complication?
400
The instinctual love a parent has for a child.
What is Storge?
400
Celebrated as Rumi's marriage night.
What is December 17th?
400
The man who fell in love with his own reflection, and the nymph who pined after his love until she disappeared.
Who is Echo & Narcissus?
400
An indication of things to come in a narrative.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The point in a narrative when a crucial action, decision, or realization must be made.
What is a crisis?
500
Translated into modern terms, this may be described as "hospitality."
What is Xenia?
500
Rumi's marriage night celebrates his union with.
Who is God?
500
He tamed the sun in a Maori myth.
Who is Maui?
500
A clue intended to mislead the reader.
What is a red herring?
500
When a story begins "in the middle of things."
What is en medias res?