Reading Terms
What are patterns of plot, setting, and characters that re-occur regularly, with the creators oftentimes not fully aware that they are repeating long-established patterns
archetypes or tropes
God of the sky, known for the lightning bolt
Who is Zeus?
The character in direct opposition/ is hostile to the
main character
What is an antagonist?
This titan's name means forethought
Who is Prometheus?
This approach to myth analysis looks at narratives for the lessons that are taught?
What is functionalism?
Contrasting terms used in the structuralist approach to create meaning
What are binary oppositions?
The goddess of the wilderness and the hunt
Who is Artemis?
The place that symbolizes the movement between the known and the unknown worlds
What is the threshold?
The son of Helios; flew too close to the sun
Who is Phaethon?
Name two common types of oppositional binaries that a structuralist analysis might examine
day/night
man/woman
young/old
mortal/immortal
etc.
The term for the basic patter that an audience will recognize and understand instantly, this common concept is used by formalists
What is a trope?
Domain of hearth and home
Who is Hestia?
An antagonist that represents evil, or a wilderness that the hero civilizes.
What is the monster/dragon?
The minotaur is half human, half what?
bull
The archetypes of human development used for psychoanalytical analysis come from this person's ideas
Who is Carl Jung?
The term for the other side of you that connects you to the unconscious (the soul); usually of the opposite gender.
What is Anima/Animus?
What are the names and domains of both of the Olympian twins?
Apollo- light, truth, music
Artemis- the moon, the hunt, nature (wild)
A character who tries to prevent the hero from completing the journey by attracting them with appeals such as money and fame
What is a tempter/temptress?
The son of Aphrodite, intended to punish Psyche.
Who is Cupid?
Myths reflect basic patterns of human experience. __________ reduce myths to those patterns to symbolize the experiences (tropes)
Formalists
The term for the realization of one’s total uniqueness in the full expression of the psyche
What is individuation?
All twelve Olympians
Who is Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes?
*Options for the 12th: Hestia OR Dionysus
Identify these two setting archetypes
A place where man lives in harmony with nature, it symbolizes innocence and security
A place symbolizing loneliness and despair. A place where there is no growth
What is the garden and the wasteland?
The two mortals that survived the flood and began the Stone Age by tossing "the bones of their mother" behind them?
Who are Deucalion and Pyrrha?
The difference between the social approaches and the symbolic approaches?
Social approaches analyze myths for how they would have impacted society and symbolic approaches analyze myth for second, sometimes unconscious meanings.