Literary Terms
Name that Myth
Miscellaneous
Symbols and Archetypes
Vocabulary
100
story that explains how something came to be
What is an origin myth?
100
myth that tells the creation of the earth
What is "The Earth on Turtle's Back"?
100
the animal that succeeds in bringing earth up for the Sky woman
What is the muskrat?
100
symbol of peace for the nations in the Iroquois Constitution
What is the Tree of Great Peace?
100
means stuck out
What is protruded?
200
words or phrases appealing to the senses used to create a visual description for the reader
What is imagery?
200
myth that tells where the first Indians came from
What is "When Grizzlies Walked Upright"?
200
the theme conveyed in "The Earth on Turtle's Back"
What is it's not about how strong or big you are, it's your determination that matters?
200
the small, determined character whose courage saves the day
What is the muskrat?
200
means having temporarily lost awareness; in a faint
What is unconscious?
300
the central message, usually moral, that a literary work reveals
What is theme?
300
myth that explains the creation of the first husband and wife
What is "The Navajo Origin Legend"?
300
the Iroquois people's founding principle
What is peace?
300
the curiously disobedient child archetype
What is the Sky Spirit's youngest daughter in "When Grizzlies Walked Upright"?
300
means the deepest areas
What is depths?
400
is meant is to teach lessons and values and to entertain
What is a myth?
400
myth that shows the value of dreams for Native Americans
What is "The Earth on Turtle's Back"?
400
causes the Sky Spirit to send his daughter to the opening in the mountain
What is the Wind Spirit sent a great storm that caused smoke to blow back into their lodge, so he sent his daughter to ask the Wind Spirit to blow more gently?
400
symbol of pledge to the other lords and the Constitution
What are the four strings of wampum shells?
400
means people from whom other people descend
What are ancestors?
500
symbols, patterns, or character types that repeat across cultures
What are archetypes?
500
myth that credits the wind for giving human beings life
What is "The Navajo Origin Legend"?
500
why the grizzly mother tells the Sky Chief that his daughter had been living amongst them
What is the grizzly mother knew she was going to die soon?
500
the symbol for the rising and the setting of the sun in "The Navajo Origin Legend"
What are the ears of corn laid out facing east and west?
500
means inclination; tendency
What is disposition?