I NEED HELP!! For this assignment, you will look at Flood narratives from Ancient Greece (Plato's Laws and Timaeus), Classical Rome (Ovid's Metamorphoses), The Hebrew scriptures or Old Testament (the Genesis account of the Flood), and ancient Mesopotamia (the Epic of Gilgamesh).

After you have read through them, you will compare Ovid's flood to any one other flood narrative. You will then post your response to the discussion board.

Your response must be in complete sentences-- NOT BULLET POINTS-- and MUST address the following things:

1. What are two similarities in the narratives OTHER THAN THE FLOOD?

2. What are two differences in the narratives?

3. Why do you think the stories might be similar?

Then, find ONE OTHER EXAMPLE of a flood narrative from any culture or time period (there are MANY options, so don't use any of the Flood narratives we've looked at so far). Give a brief (3-5 sentence) overview of the story that includes information on what culture or society produced the narrative. This will require you to do some basic research. (The online Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia. com, or even *shudders* Wikipedia will be sufficient for this assignment.)

6  then the  lord  said to cain, “why are you angry?   why is your face downcast?   7  if you do what is right, will you not be accepted? but if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door;   it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

8  now cain said to his brother abel, “let’s go out to the field.”  while they were in the field, cain attacked his brother abel and killed him.

1. an introductory word, phrase, or clause which is missing the word(s) it is supposed to modify- dangling modifier

words, clauses or phrases which add description is known as a modifier. a modifier is found before or after the target words that they want to describe.

for example: happily, she ran towards her father.

herein, happily precedes 'she', its target.

whereas, when an author forgets to mention the target and includes the modifier thus it is known as a dangling modifier, wherein modifier has nothing to describe. these are the errors which confuse the reader.

2. a noun or pronoun's function within a sentence- elliptical clause

it is a clause in which words are being left out. on the other hand, the missing word is understood due to the logic or pattern of the sentence.

for example:

she had five apples;   kanishk, three.

herein the verb 'had' is missing which is otherwise understood.

3. to quickly run: split infinitive

it refers to the construction of the sentence in which infinitive consists with the word or an adverb between to and verb.

for example, he used to secretly ate those apples.

4. a clause with either an implied subject or verb: elliptical clause

5. a word that joins words or phrases of the same grammatical type: coordinating conjunctions are the words which connect clauses and phrases. there are seven coordinating conjunctions that are, yet, so, or, for, and, nor, and but.

for example:

the boy refused to complete the homework nor will he take the punishment.

'and' is the coordinating conjunction.

7. pronoun with no specific antecedent: indefinite pronouns are the pronouns which do not refer to anyone specifically.

for example several, nobody, some and so forth.

8. a pair of words like either/or: correlative conjunctions

these are the pairs of conjunctions used in a sentence to join elements together. these are, , not also, and so forth.

9. masculine and feminine forms: gender

gender refers to the cultural, psychological and behavioral traits that are associated with a particular sex.