"Icarus and Daedalus" & "Prometheus" Review

Choose the correct literary element.

A traditional story involving gods and goddesses that attempts to explain a natural phenomenon or historical event.

• Characterization

• Folk Tale

• Myth

• Personification

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The method a writer uses to develop the personality of a character.

• Myth

• Figurative Language

• Theme

• Characterization

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A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given human form or characteristics.

• Personification

• Figurative Language

• Theme

• Characterization

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The main idea of a story usually expressed as a general statement.

• Myth

• Theme

• Personification

• Conflict

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The central struggle between opposing forces in a story or a drama.

• Theme

• Conflict

• Characterization

• Myth

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Language used for descriptive effect that are not literally true but express some truth beyond the literal level.

• Theme

• Personification

• Figurative Language

• Characterization

Match the quote with the correct literary element.

"Prometheus was a young Titan, no great admirer of Zeus."

• Characterization

• Theme

• Myth

• Conflict

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"Without delay, he fell to work on a pair of wings for the boy Icarus..."

• Conflict

• Characterization

• Figurative Language

• Personification

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"This that I have brought for you is fire, ...It is very greedy, you must feed it with twigs, ..."

• Figurative Language

• Conflict

• Theme

• Personification

Which heroic actions best apply to Daedalus?

• He escaped the prison.

• He made wings for his son.

• He gave fire to man.

• He named an island to honor his son.