Arachne Vocab & Plot

Which part of the plot is the following excerpt from?

"Reckless girl, how dare you claim to be an equal to the immortal gods themselves? I am an old woman and have seen much. Take my advice and ask pardon of Athena for your words. Rest content with your fame and being the best spinner and weaver that mortal eyes have ever beheld."

• Inciting Incident

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Which part of the plot is the following excerpt from?

"Praise was all she lived for, and it displeased her greatly that people should think anyone, even a goddess, could teach her anything. 'If Athena herself were to come down and compete with me, she could do no better than I.'"

• Exposition

• Inciting Incident

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

Which part of the plot is the following excerpt from?

"The spectators realized that Athena was weaving into her pattern a last warning to Arachne. The central figure was the goddess herself competing with Poseidon for possession of the city of Athens."

• Exposition

• Inciting Incident

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

Which part of the plot is the following excerpt from?

There before the eyes of the spectators hung a little dusty brown spider on a slender thread. All spiders descend from Arachne..."

• Inciting Incident

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Which part of the plot is the following excerpt from?

"As she stole glances from time to time at Athena and saw the goddess working swiftly, calmly, and always faster than herself, she became angry instead of frightened, and an evil thought came into her head. The maiden had taken for her design a pattern of scenes which showed evil or unworthy actions of the gods."

• Inciting Incident

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Which part of the plot is the following excerpt from?

"Even more skillful than her father was Arachne. It was her task to spin the fleecy wool into a fine, soft thread and to weave it into cloth on the high, standing loom."

• Exposition

• Inciting Incident

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

Which part of the plot is the following excerpt from?

"[Athena] struck Arachne across the face. Arachne stood there a moment, struggling with anger, fear, and pride. 'I will not live under this insult,' she cried, and seizing a rope from the wall, she made a noose and would have hanged herself."

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Which word means "a length of yarn or thread that is loosely coiled, balled, or bundled"?

• loom

• shuttle

• distaff

• skeins

Which word means "a wooden frame or machine for interlacing at right angles two or more sets of threads or yarns to form a cloth"?

• loom

• shuttle

• distaff

• skeins

Which word refers to "a pointed tool that is used to weave cloth by pulling a thread from side to side across"?

• loom

• shuttle

• distaff

• skeins