[HUMA 1105] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (29 pages long)

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1105
• Professor: Loredana Kun

Document Summary

Memorability: to tell oral stories, you have to have a good memory. Social importance: certain social expectations, how to behave, what to say, etc. Offer explanation about things, deities, and moral codes. Divine myth: refers to stories centred on the actions of gods and goddesses. Heroic myth: refer to stories that revolve around the great heroes. Legends: tell an important story about the lives of saints or other remarkable people, with little regard to documented historical facts. Folktales: capture the imagination, habits, aspirations and dreams of people. Fables: stories that use animal characters that thinly veil human behaviour and situations and deliver a moral to be learned from. Jokes: stories with a punch line, said with the intent to provoke laughter or amusement. Palaeolithic period (100,000-10,000 bce, before common era) - the old stone age. Neolithic period (6000-3000 bc) - new stone age. Minoan period (3000-1500 bc) - early bronze age. Minoans live on the island in greece.