Read the passage from "Cruel Tribute.”"He is coming!" cried Theseus, and he ran forward to meet the beast. The seven maidens shrieked, but tried to stand up bravely and face their fate; and the six young men stood together with firm-set teeth and clinched fists, ready to fight to the last.
In part one of "Cruel Tribute,” how do King Aegeus’s actions affect the advancement of the plot?
Read the summary of the contemporary novel Jurassic Park.A wealthy businessman uses modern DNA technology to bring dinosaurs back from extinction. He breeds many varieties of dinosaurs and plans to open a theme park where visitors can see them. However, the dinosaurs soon escape their pens and wreak havoc across the park, resulting in death and destruction.
The contemporary novel The Hunger Games features a lottery where children are selected to fight to the death in combat.The section of "Cruel Tribute” that best features a similar mythological element is
Which elements of Ancient Greek mythical literature are often reflected in contemporary literature? Select 3 options.frightening creaturesheroic charactersnormal day-to-day plotsrealistic settingssupernatural beings
In the plot of "Cruel Tribute,” which events are a result of King Minos’s actions? Select 3 options.Athens agrees to pay the tribute.Young people participate in a lottery.Theseus uses the silken thread.Theseus fights the Minotaur.Aegeus drowns in the Aegean Sea.Theseus becomes king.
The story "Cruel Tribute” is broken into four parts:I. The TreatyII. The TributeIII. The PrincessIV. The Labyrinth
Based solely on their titles, which contemporary novel most likely contains a mythological element that is also found in "Cruel Tribute?”
Read the passage from "Cruel Tribute.”On the third day all the youths and maidens of the city were brought together in the market place, so that lots might be cast for those who were to be taken. Then two vessels of brass were brought and set before King Aegeus and the herald who had come from Crete. Into one vessel they placed as many balls as there were noble youths in the city, and into the other as many as there were maidens; and all the balls were white save only seven in each vessel, and those were black as ebony.Then every maiden, without looking, reached her hand into one of the vessels and drew forth a ball, and those who took the black balls were borne away to the black ship, which lay in waiting by the shore. The young men also drew lots in like manner, but when six black balls had been drawn Theseus came quickly forward and said:"Hold! Let no more balls be drawn. I will be the seventh youth to pay this tribute. Now let us go aboard the black ship and be off."
themefalling actionresolution of conflictssequence of events
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