Perseus & Medusa

PART A: Which theme is shared by both passages?

• Accomplishments can further your ego.

• Love can never be had when you are cursed by the Gods.

• All is fair in love and war.

• It takes courage to fight when the odds are against you.

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PART B: How does Mine dramatize this theme in the poem Tableau Vivant?

• Emphasizes that doing great works will give you bragging rights in ancient Greece.

• Personifying Perseus and describing his effort to kill Medusa.

• Highlights Medusa’s desire to experience love.

• Adds information about what Medusa might be dreaming about.

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How does Mine transform the source material? Choose all that apply.

• By depicting the myth as an ornamental piece of art.

• Alters how Perseus sees Medusa’s reflection.

• Leaving out the journey Perseus took to find Medusa.

• By putting the text in poetic form.

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How does Mine draw on and depart from Ovid’s work?

• By emphasizing the main event of the myth and representing it on an ancient plate.

• By using the same characters but changing how Medusa dies.

• By depicting Perseus as a mosquito and Medusa as a dryad.

• By showing Perseus’ bravery and the banquet.

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What subject is being represented in both the text and the picture?

• Perseus killing Medusa.

• The reason why Perseus killed Medusa.

• The decapitation of Medusa.

• The animals coming back to life from being stone.

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What is emphasized in the picture that is absent in the text?

• The animals.

• The snakes dying.

• Medusa’s death.

• Medusa’s soul or final breath.

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What is emphasized in the text that is absent in the picture? Select all that apply.

• The birth of Pegasus and Chrysador.

• Medusa turning her victims into stone.

• Medusa dying.

• Perseus stealing the eye from the two sisters.

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