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Native American Lit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| animism | attributing souls to inanimate objects |
| etiology/etiological myth | explains how something comes into being |
| creation myth | explains the big cause; why/how the world was created |
| oral tradition | stories/traditions being passed on through generations orally; |
| myth's roles (3) | explains things; teaches/educations |
| inverted syntax | when a sentence feels like it's in the wrong order |
| syntactical repetition | repetition of an identical syntax structure |
| anaphora | repetition of the same word at the beginning of a clause |
| anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics/behavior to nonhuman things |
| archetype, ex. | a typical example of something, a recurring motif or symbol; hero, damsel in distress |
| earth diver | something or someone who dives down and pulls up earth |
| colonization | the taking of one's land and natural resources |
| apostrophe | term used in poetry to address a person who is not present; dedicating to someone not there |
| "a satisfying meal" | coyote tricks fox by eating his food, leaving him to "hold up" a cliff, and then drowning him--trickster tale |
| "the journal of columbus" | spreading christianity in the americas to indigenous people then colonizing their land and subjugating them to impress king and queen of spain |
| "coyote gets stuck" | coyote is the one being tricked--annoyed that pitch wasn't answering and he kept getting stuck as he was trying to punch, kick, and bite him; pitch gets turned into pitch by aunt |
| "raven steals the light" | a raven desires light trapped in boxes of boxes to himself because he can't hunt in the dark; he morphs into a boy; gets the light using toddler magic and accidentally drops it being chased by an eagle, therefore creating the sun, moon, and stars |
| "hunting song" | expressing what a man wants--a manifestation--repeated desire |
| "song of the sky loom" | speaker is desiring mother earth and father sky to give them something in return for their offerings, love, and appreciation |
| "the world on the turtle's back" | chief's wife falls from skyland into the waters of the water animals; many try and bring up land for her to stand, and muskrat succeeds; places paw on turtles back, springing earth to life |
| wish fulfillment | trying to manifest/receive by repeating what they want |
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i.lundin
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