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mythology and purpose
what is the purpose of this passage from the myth?
ea called on marduk, a great warrior god, saying that if
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marduk should be victorious, he would be the lord of all
the gods. a great battle ensued, with gods raging against
each other. marduk reached tiamat, the embodiment of
chaos, and smashed her head with his great club. he
sliced her in half, making the north wind bear her pieces
away. from each half of her ribs he created the vault of
the heavens and the earth. her weeping eyes became
sacred rivers, and tiamat was no more.
-"enuma elish.
early babylonian muth
to explain how the first humans came to exist on
earth
to explain how the heavens, earth and rivers were
created
to explain how humans should act toward one
another

What does a change in medium allow the audience to do?

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, throwing his arms around this marvel of a father telemachus began to weep. salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestings farmers take before they fly this excerpt is an example of which value important to ancient greek society? hospitality generosity perseverance family ties

50 ! your poem must include the following: ● poetic form: lines and stanzas (not paragraphs! ) o your poem needs to be at least 10 lines long. ● sensory details/strong imagery o “paint a picture” and/or create an emotion with your words, word choice is key in poetry ● figurative language o include at least one of the following: metaphor, simile, and/or personification (click here for more info. on these) ● sound devices o include at least one of the following: repetition, rhyme, rhythm, meter, onomatopoeia, and/or alliteration (click here for more info. on these) ● labels o underneath your poem, include the words from the poem that represent the figurative language and sound devices and label them o examples: booming bombs - alliteration; like a firefly - simile you so