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Set: sumerian, egyptian, hebrew literature. (part 2 cont. off of haley's set)

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	Term	Definition
	pastoral poetry	literary work dealing with shepherds and rustic life., highly conventionalized; it presents an idealized rather than realistic view of rustic life.
	author's purpose	quest for immortality
	archetype	a pattern or theme that recurs in many different cultures (universal to all times and places), EX) quest for immortality that continues forever.
	simile	a technique that uses words such as "like" or "as" to compare two ideas
	quest	a hero's search for something
	pharoahs	ruled kingdom, were considered gods, years of rule can be divided, old kingdom 2700-2200BCE, middle kingdom- 2050-1800BCE, new kingdom- 1570-1090BCE
	BCE	before common era
	flood	caused by wrath of gods; mortality, human weakness, cleansing
	humanness	failure to achieve immortality
	snake	evil; deviousness
	number 7	completion, perfection
	gilgamesh	part god/part human
	enkidu	tamed side kick
	humbaba	giant of cedar forest
	shamash	sun god
	ishtar	goddess of heaven
	bull of heaven	killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu
	Uruk	modern day Iraq

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Terms	18
Creator	Brooke_B
Created	November 4, 2008
Groups	Ms. Boland's AP Human Geo Class, The amazing group of Haley, PIB English
Subject	pib english
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