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WorksheetsExploring Lit Unit 2 part 1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 4hrs 10mins
Myths are simiar to fables because they both:
Started as oral traditions
Usually use animals as the main characters
Both always include a life lesson
Usually have flat characters
Myths are different than fables because they:
Have characters that are well-described and grow in the story
Almost always have humans as the main heroes
Are part of a culture's religion
Have characters with spuer natural or super human powers
_______ explain what people don't understand about the natural world.
Flat characters
Fables
Heroes
Myths
In myths, the hero of the story is:
The leading character
The one who wins battles
The one with the hardest to pronounce name
The tallest
A MYTH is:
A lie
A figure of speech
A story often part of a culture's religion
The series of events in a story
A _______ is a figue of speech that uses LIKE or AS to compare two things.
Verb
Noun
Plot
Simile
The _______ is a specific type of literature or music.
Setting
Plot
Genre
Myth
Which of t hese is an example of a simile?
Gary slithered away.
Gary moved like a snake.
Gary was a snake
The snake ate Gary.
Which of these stories are Greek myths?
Loki and the Master Builder
The Beginning and the End of the World
Prometheus
The Moon Spirit and Coyote Woman
FILL IN THE BLANK:
Unlike the animal characters in fables, the characters in (a) are usually gods, goddesses, and heroes.
Myths were a form of early (a) in which people tried to explain what they saw around them. (see page 33)
TRUE or FALSE:
People believed that the myths they studied were true.
True
False
TRUE or FALSE:
People believed the fables they heard were true.
True
False
Choose the word that this definition belongs to:
To go on living
Lavished
Survive
Chariot
Mere
Choose the word that this definition belongs to:
Given a great deal of
Lavished
Survive
Chariot
Mere
Choose the word that this definition belongs to:
A two-wheeled cart
Lavished
Survive
Chariot
Mere
Choose the word that this definition belongs to:
nothing more than
Lavished
Survive
Chariot
Mere
Choose the word that this definition belongs to:
put out
Extinguished
Eternity
Immortal
Lobes
Choose the word that this definition belongs to:
forever
Extinguished
Eternity
Immortal
Lobes
Choose the word that this definition belongs to:
living forever
Extinguished
Eternity
Immortal
Lobes
Choose the word that this definition belongs to:
rounded parts that stick out or down
Extinguished
Eternity
Immortal
Lobes
FILL IN THE BLANK:
_______ means thinking or planning ahead
Immortal
Chariot
Forethought
Hindsight
Prometheus brought humans the gift of ______.
Cattle
Goats
Rain
Fire
Prometheus's twin was named: (page 38)
Herbert
Zeus
Epimetheus
Hera
Zeus sent Hercules to free Prometheus after: (page 39)
1 day
2 years
30,000 years
3,000 years
