Exam 2: Ways of Understanding Myth

When an author rationalizes the presentation of a story, it can then be termed ______________________________.

Paratactic composition in oral storytelling is ______________________.

Ovid lived and wrote in ________________________.

One factor likely to influence a written (literary) myth is that ____________________________:

Myths passed on orally would NOT include ________________________.

The fact that Metamorphoses emphasizes abrupt, radical, irreversible change at the hands of strange, impetuous divinities could be the result of the uncertain times in which ____________________________ wrote.

_________________________ often use information provided by archeologists to provide information about the past.

A type of storytelling that represents ideas and events in a sequence without paying attention to making logical connections is _____________________.

Because of what happened to Enkidu, Gilgamesh is afraid of __________________.

Changing shape is a motif in all of the stories in ______________________.

A major example of rationalization in the Prose Edda is that Snorri__________________________:

Hesiod's explanation of the creation of humans ___________________.

An example of why historians might study myth is _____________________________________________________________.

The Odyssey is a major literary work by ____________________________.