English Unit 1 Critique Essay – Flashcards

symbolic tales of the distant past (often primordial times) that concern cosmogony and cosmology (the origin and nature of the universe)

belief systems or rituals

social actions and cultural values

an immortal being or spiritual element

a traditional story that explains how life began

how features of the world were formed or how specific social customs formed

usually orally (oral tradition)

symbols, patterns, or characters that repeat in literature across cultures and therefore, fond throughout the world

trickster, hero, mysterious guides to help on a journey, outcasts, wise old person, devil figure

Water = birth, death, resurrection, creation Tree = life of the cosmos, growth Sun = wisdom, enlightenment Serpent = evil corruption

3 = unity; spiritual awareness (The Holy Trinity) 4 = life cycle (four seasons), nature, nature Spring = rebirth Summer = life Fall = death/dying Winter = death

Native Americans came up with explanations for creation, life, and nature. Animals are important to creation and give themes.

The earth was covered with water. Only birds and water animals existed. There was a sky land in which there was a pregnant lady/goddess, her chief husband, and others. There was a giant tree in the sky land that had branches that pointed to the four directions. The wife had a dream that it was uprooted. The couple then agreed they needed to make the dream come true so the chief uprooted the tree. The woman looked down in the hole that was left from the tree and saw something, then fell, with only seeds in her hand. The swans got her and the animals realized she was different and they needed earth for her to survive. They knew that down far in the water lay earth, so one by one animals tried to swim deep enough to reach it. Then the muskrat, a tiny creature spoke up and said she would go get some earth. She swam so deep, she almost died, but she reached the bottom and surfaced with some earth in her hand. They put it on the turtle's back and it grew and grew. The wife that fell placed the seeds down and trees and grass grew.

dreams and animals

determination, wisdom, courage

Pregnant sky wife/goddess falls on water which represents birth, creation, etc. Four animals dive in water, four representing the life cycle. Tree uprooted = creation of the world Mother Earth figure

Before the earth was created the chief of the sky spirits was cold up in sky. He decided to use a rock to cut a whole in the sky and then pushed all the ice and snow down in the hole. The pile of ice and snow was so large that it created a big mound known today as Mount Shasta. The chief walked down the mountain/mound with his walking stick and pushed his finger into it. Wherever he placed his fingers, trees would grow. When he stepped, he melted the ice and the water flowed to form rivers. He took pieces of his walking stick and threw them into the river. They turned into beavers, fish, and otters. The leaves he blew in the river became fish. He took the big part of his stick and made the other animals. The biggest was the grizzly bear. They walked on two feet. The chief spirit sent them to live in the forest. Happy with the outcome of earth, the chief brought his family down to live there. the sky spirit chief carved and hole and the mountains became their home. he made a fire in the middle of the mountain. When big logs were placed in it, fire sparked and flew. The wind spirit blew a storm one symbols, patterns, or characters that repeat in literature across cultures and therefore, fond throughout the world and the sky spirit chief told his youngest daughter to go and ask him to blow softer. He told her to be careful and to not stick her head out at the top because this might cause her to blow away. She climbed to the top of the hole carefully then her curious mind got the best off her. She wanted to see what the ocean looked like so she poked her head and looked out the mountain. She got blown out by the wind spirit and was thrown down the outside of the ice and snow mound. She landed among trees and a grizzly found her. He brought her home and she was raised with the grizzly's family. She later married the oldest grizzly bear of the family and they had many children, that looked less hairy then normal grizzly bears but not completely like spirits. The grizzlies were so proud of these children that they made a lodge for them now called Little Mount Shasta. The mother grizzly bear that raised the chief sky spirit's daughter was about to die and thought she should ask for forgiveness from the chief sky spirit. She sent her oldest grandson to the top of the mountain to tell the chief sky spirit where is daughter was. He came down fast and so intensely that his tracks are still visible. He saw his children and got very mad. The grandmother grizzly died and he yelled and made it so that the grizzlies from then on would have to walk on four legs and not talk. He took his daughter back up and sent the grizzlies away. Some say he took his daughter back up into the sky. These grizzlies were the first ancestors of the Native Americans so Native Americans don't kill the grizzles.

origin of human beings (Native Americans)

Mountains and volcanoes

Listen to your parents. Too much curiosity can be dangerous. Repent and take responsibility .

The creation of the first men and women and marriage

gods and personified aspects of nature

giving human like qualities to non human things

They view the wind as a person and as a part creator. The wind to them is sacred.

Deer is skinned and worn. A head of an animal is placed for an event. They put corn on skin. They involve them in sacred ceremonies

Four gods Fourth call gods came to create the people

Characters - gods, animals, personified aspects of nature Cultural details - references to objects, animals, or practices The illuminate how people of a culture live, think, and worship Respect for the natural and spiritual world The Great Spirit - source of power (all tribes recognize a name for it) Oral tradition - told with imagery (using descriptive details, relying on the five sense often, so listener/reader can better understand something) Identify - who am I? How did the earth come to be? Lessons to be learned-children

an autobiographical account of a person's life as a slave. Written when slavery was legal, most slave narratives have an implicit purpose: to expose the evils of slavery, and in doing so, turn the public against it. The point of view is first person

ex: animal rescue sad commercial imagery is often used narration of story strong imagery = strong emotional appeal = engaged reader = effective persuasion (in this case is the end of slavery)

Pathos - the appeal to the reader's emotions and desires; the speaker uses detail, description, and imagery to arouse, for example, pity and fear in the reader

autobiography

first person

a speech given from a pulpit in a house of worship that must have a purpose that is almost always religious

a form of public speaking persuasive address the needs/concerns of the audience pathos expressive language