MYTH, LEGEND, AND FOLKLORE yr. name ______HMCL 122
Study Guide for OPEN BOOK EXAM
1. Bring two “bluebooks” and sufficient pens to the final examination. Texts but no notes may be used.
2. You will write two essays from a selection (100 pts.). Think about our course: text, images, sounds, concepts (below), and codes and modes of analysis (social functions, psychological, ecological). Review ALL texts, images, etc. Compare across cultures, e.g., Tricksters Prometheus, Coyote, and B’uh Rabbit.!
3. Study syllabus definitions and divisions of folklore. Be ready to illustrate terms with examples.
4. Prepare for a typical short-answer quiz (100 pts.) on materials since the last major quiz.
5. The following essential concepts/ terms describe and analyze folklore. Use those that enrich your analysis. [Bracketed terms may be less relevant for this semester’sfinal examination.]Boldened terms are most important.
myth
creation
cosmogony
extinction
apocalypse
eschatology
social organization
migration
legend
wondertale
aetiology
miracles/magic
auspicy
==Passover/Pesach
Exodus
Easter/Passion
[Hallowe’en]
Valentine’s Day
[Yom Kippur]
[Ramadan]
[Christmas]
[Channukah]==
animal sacrifice
apotheosis
conflation
diffusion/polygenesis
Fakelore: P. Bunyan
Omens
Augury
Kleedon: Hom. utterance
Allegory: e.g., “Five Ages”
earthly corruption
FolkTalemotif:e.g.,
‘scant food increased’
tale type: sham wise man
fetish
[ghosts]
Grimm Brothers
Cautionary tale
ethnomusicology
R. Johnson
Huddy Ledbetter
Alan Lomax
[Bascom L. Lunsford]
Buck Dance
ballad
work song
dis- & as-similation
tabu
liminal figure
shaman
potlatch
liturgy
ecstasy/possession
psychopomp
polarity/ analogy
inversion
omophagy
vagina dentata
test and quest
Rites of Passage (4)
fertility rituals
Tell-tale Name
Miss.Delta Blues
Hierophant
Eleusinian Mysteries
animal fable
in illo tempore
attribute (images)
Golden Age
Tree of Life
12 Canonical Labors (Her.)
[Hegira (Islam)]
Theophany/epiphany
Titans
ZEUS
satyrs/maenads
theriomorphic /avatar
Teller-Tale-“Told”
Performance values
shape-shifters
bride-contest
Appalachia
Informant
Ultimate journey
Black/Red figured Vases
Devil/Satan/Demon
chthonic cult
YHWH
Marduk
slang/ dialect
folk etymology
locus amoenus
monsters/ ogres
chant/ incantation
mumbo-jumbo/ hocus pocus
pilgrimage /penance
culture hero
expiation
pariah /miasma/ pollution
ideology
ecphrasis
“myth”
“superstition”
Dionysiac sparagmos
omophagy
mediators
iconography
temple pediments/ metopes
validating paradigm
[talisman]
[jinx]
riddle/ainos
Hero/ Gilgamesh
epic formulae
oral traditional epic
concatenated tales
purgation
prodigy/omen (channel)
metempsychosis
/transmigration
condign punishment
meta-/ & anamorphosis
your terms______
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other terms ______