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CLA 10 Midterm 1 Questions AndAnswers 2024 Update
What is myth? ANS✔✔ A traditional story with collective importantce
What are the three elements that myths contain? ANS✔✔ 1. plot
2. characters
3. setting
What is the setting for myths? ANS✔✔ distant past
What is character? ANS✔✔ the sum of the choices one makes
What does traditional mean? ANS✔✔ Passed down orally as a transmission of a culture's sense of itself:
past wisdom, memories, and models
What does collective importance mean? ANS✔✔ 1. meaningful for the larger group, not an individual
2. reflect a culture's concerns and values
3. provide models for members of society
How is mythos different from logos? ANS✔✔ The teller of logos takes responsibility for the truth of
what is said
Does a myth has an author? ANS✔✔ No
,Myths have variants. There are no truer versions of a myth, True or False? ANS✔✔ True
What are the three types of myths? ANS✔✔ Folktales, Legends, and Divine Myths
What kind of characters are in divine myths and what purpose does divine myths serve? ANS✔✔
supernatural beings
explain why and how the world is the way it is
What kind of characters are in legends and what purpose does divine myths serve? ANS✔✔ Heroes and
heroines
narrate great deeds of human past
What kind of characters are in folktales and what purpose does folktales serve ANS✔✔ Ordinary people
or animals
Entertain or teach or justify types of behavior
When do divine myths take place? ANS✔✔ before time and space function as it does now
What are etiological myths? ANS✔✔ Myths with explanatory purpose (ex: why the seasons vary)
How are divine myths and modern theoretical science similar? ANS✔✔ they both explain the origins of
the fundamental arrangement of cosmos as we experience it
When do legends take place? ANS✔✔ in the remote past, thought to be real events
Do legends have historical accuracy? ANS✔✔ some historical accuracy, but mostly story
, How is folktale different from legends? ANS✔✔ "plain" folks and animals, characters are not believed to
have existed
What is the function of folktales? ANS✔✔ 1. entertain
2. justify traditional forms of society and beliefs
What are motifs? ANS✔✔ Identifiable folktale "types" and features of types
How are divine myths and legends related to folktales? ANS✔✔ they contain many folktale motifs and
types
What are the four different ways of studying myths? ANS✔✔ Collecting the Stories
Cultural Significance of the Stories
Comparative Approach
Assessment of Myth
What was the Greeks' diet? ANS✔✔ olives, grapes, goats milk, not a lot of meat
What material did the Greeks have? ANS✔✔ rich in limestone, marble, clay
Boeotia ANS✔✔ Thebes
Attica ANS✔✔ Athens
Attica, Boeotia, and Euboea are within? ANS✔✔ Macedonia
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