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Title: Cultural Foundations, 1st Sem

Description: All the definitions for SF class. (with Pamela Brown)

Total Flash Cards: 5

Created: 09/14/2009 21:35:25

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Term
Epic
 Definition
A long, formal narrative poem written in an elevated style (not common language) that recounts the adventures of a hero of great stature and significance. The setting is on a grand scale and the action requires noble, fantastic, and often superhuman deeds.*

Ex. Gilgamest

*Pamela said we would 'learn more' to add to this definition later.
Term
Cuneiform
 Definition
one of the earliest forms of writing, invented by the Sumerians. Wedge-shaped marks are impressed onto wet clay with a stylus.


Ex. Gilgamesh is written in cuneiform.
Term
metaphor
 Definition
A figure of speech based on dissimilarity, which is used to suggest resemblance.
Term
anaphora
 Definition
A rhetorical device involving the repetition of a group of words in successive lines or clauses.

Ex. Gilgamesh, pgs 93, lines 294-298. "For how long...For how long..."
Term
anthropomorphism
 Definition
ascribing human form or attributes to something that is not human.

Ex. Gilgamesh pg 101, lines 113-117. "The gods were frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu. The gods were cowering like dogs, crouching by the outer wall. Ishtar shrieked like a women in childbirth."