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Checkpoint: Medieval World Literature — Homework
Apply this unit's full toolkit to a short new legend excerpt.
- 1.Passage: "For three years the youngest weaver's daughter said nothing at all, though her hands never stopped moving at the loom. When raiders finally reached the valley, it was her cloth -- patterned, without her ever explaining why, into a map of every hidden path out -- that led the whole village to safety. They still hang a strip of that weaving in the town hall every harvest." Name the early, unusual detail about the weaver's daughter, and the moment that reveals its hidden purpose.
- 2.Is this passage best read as a literal historical claim or as a legend expressing a value? Defend your answer.
- 3.Which hero code studied this unit does this passage most resemble, and why?
- 4.What oral-tradition marker in this passage signals it has been passed down by retelling, similar to griot performance?
- 5.If you were retelling this passage from a raider's point of view instead, name one detail they might notice that the original telling leaves out.
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