QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO
PASS
◉ folktale motifs. Answer: single element/ idea in a story not entire
stories. An example might be a type of character that is found in
stories from different cultures, such as a wicked witch
◉ Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Answer: * a classification of
narrative elements
* Smith Thompson 1867-1925
example myth, ballad, fable
◉ Folktale types. Answer: types of narrative patterns *stories that
can be found in several different cultures,
◉ AT Tale Type 720. Answer: "My mother she killed me, my father
he ate me"
"The Juniper Tree"(German) and "The Crow's Nest"(Hungary) and
"The Rose Tree"(England)
◉ "The Juniper Tree". Answer: * german
* step mother cuts head off when son was going to get an apple
,*she made him into black pudding
*His step sister buried the boy next to a juniper tree
* then a bird came out singing
* chain for father
* shoes for sister
* hits stepmother with millstone, she dies
* boy reappears
◉ Marlinchen. Answer: sister in The juniper tree
* buries step brothers bones under juniper tree
◉ "The Crow's Nest". Answer: *Hungarian story
Mother sent her daughter to borrow a peel, while she was gone she
killed her son
* made him into stewed cabbage
* sister hid bones in hollow tree
* became a crow
* gave sister cloak, father stick, and killed mother with millstone
◉ "The Rose Tree". Answer: england
*step mother killed daughter with ax and made her into stewed
heart/liver
,* brother buries her in box by rose tee
* bird singing
* shoes, watch, millstone dropped on mothers head
◉ AT Folktale Type 425. Answer: "the search for the lost husband"
◉ "Cupid and Psyche". Answer: ...
◉ Cupid. Answer: pricks himself with arrow
* to fall in love with psyche
* mother is venus
◉ Psyche. Answer: youngest daughter
* marries cupid
* must overcome many obstacles to find cupid
◉ Venus. Answer: goddess of love
jealous of psyche
mother of cupid
◉ Lucius Apuleius. Answer: Author of the story Cupid and Psyche.
He wrote this story as an embedded narrative.
, ◉ "The Singing, Soaring Lark". Answer: ...
◉ Tale of Tulisa. Answer: ...
◉ India. Answer: ...
◉ Tulisa. Answer: daughter of a wood-cutter,
nor-singh, and his wife.
voice at the well asks to marry her.
marries without ever seeing her husband
◉ Nur-Singh. Answer: a poor woodcutter and father of Tulisa.
◉ Basnak Dau. Answer: King of the Snakes. Name of Tulisa's
husband. He could not tell her his name lest he lose his powers and
his mother (Queen of the Snakes)gains the power instead and takes
over.
◉ Sarkasukis. Answer: ...
◉ Unug. Answer: Sumerian word for the capital city