Vocabulary
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is Setting?
In this step in the Hero's Journey, the hero experiences support from a friend, family member, mentor, etc. during the Road of Trials.
What is the Experience with Unconditional Love?
This story represented The Refusal of the Call when a young drummer boy is frightened to go to battle the next day.
What is The Drummer Boy of Shiloh?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
During this step of the Hero's Journey, the hero experiences and is transformed by a series of tests, tasks, or challenges. The hero usually fails one or more of these tests, which often occur in threes.
What is The Road of Trials?
The overall emotional quality of a work, which is created by the author's language and tone and the subject matter.
What is mood?
The Goal of the quest is achieved. The Road of Trials makes the hero strong enough to achieve this goal. The boon can be a physical object or an intangible item such as knowledge, courage, or love.
This hero's call to adventure involved a war that began by the Huns attacking China. The emperor then declared that every family in China needed to send one man to the fight.
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The future hero often refuses to accept the call to adventure. This may stem from a sense of duty, an obligation, a fear, or insecurity.
What is the Refusal of the Call?
A character, symbol, story pattern, or other element that is common to human experience across culture and that occurs frequently in literature, myth, and folklore
What is archetype?
During this step of the Hero's Journey, Mulan doubts that she can pull of being a boy in the army.
What is Refusal of the Call?
This hero went to the land of Cyclops to see if they were cruel, savage, and lawless or hospitable and feared the gods.
Who is Odysseus?
The ability to form mental images of things or events that appeal to the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
The hero begins the adventure, leaving the known limits of his or her world to venture into an unknown and dangerous realm where the rules and limits are unknown.
What is the Beginning of the Adventure?
The sequence of related events that make up a story.
The hero experiences adventure and perhaps danger as he or she returns to life as it was before the Call to Adventure.
What is The Magic Flight?
Daily Double: Give an example of this step.
Odysseus' trials to defeat and escape the cyclops represent which stage in the Hero's Journey?
What is the Road of Trials?
Daily Double: How did Odysseus escape the cyclops?
The circumstances or conditions in which something takes place.
What is context?
When the goal of the adventure is accomplished, the hero may refuse to return with the boon or gift, either because the hero doubts the return will bring change or because the hero prefers to stay in a better place rather than return to a normal life or pain and trouble.
What is the Refusal of the Return?
A long narrative poem about the deeds of heroes or gods.
Oftentimes, the hero has powerful guides and rescuers to bring him or her back to everyday life. Sometimes the hero does not realize that it is time to return, that he or she can return, or that others are relying on him or her to return.
At this step in the Hero's Journey, Mulan has brought honor to her family and received gifts from the emperor; however, her father tells her that the greatest gift and honor is having her for a daughter.
What is The Crossing or Return Threshold?
A writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
The future hero is first given notice that his or her life is going to change.
What is The Call to Adventure?