Mythology
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Chapter 5 Cupid and Psyche Chapter 6 Eight Brief Tales of Lovers
1. Why was Venus angry at Psyche?
2. Was Venus’s plan for revenge successful?
3. What did Psyche discover about her mysterious husband, and what happened when she discovered it?
4. What finally happened to Cupid and Psyche?
5. Which lovers arranged a tryst, mistakenly thought the other had been killed, and killed themselves?
6. Identify the lovers in the following summary. He was the son of one of the Muses, and a gifted musician. She died on their wedding day. He went to the underworld and tried, unsuccessfully, to bring her back.
7. This man was killed at sea. Morpheus appeared to his wife and told her that her husband was dead. Then she and her dead husband were turned into birds.
8. He fell in love with a statue that he had made. Venus brought the statue to life and they married. Who were they?
9. What did Baucis and Philemon do?
10. Apollo fell in love with this daughter of the river god Peneus. She did not love him. To protect her, her father turned her into a laurel tree. Who was this?
Pre-reading Vocabulary Worksheets – Mythology, Part Two Stories of Love and Adventure
Chapter 5 Cupid and Psyche, Chapter 6 Eight Brief Tales of Lovers
Introduction Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.
1. She seemed a very goddess consorting with mere mortals.
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2. ...to do her homage as though she were in truth one of the immortals.
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3. “But really,” she said, “you are so plain and ill-favored a girl that you will never be able to get you a lover except by the most diligent and painful service.”
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4. No; he was a horrible serpent and she loathed him.
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5. She offered ardent prayers to them perpetually, but not one of them would do anything.
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6. The conclusion was inevitable.
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7. She ventured to go back to the tree of the tryst, the mulberry with the shining white fruit.
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8. She determined to help a young man who could be enamored and yet original.
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9. The alliance had become eminently suitable.
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10. Such was the wondrous power of this disdainful young man.
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Part Two Chapters 5&6
Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.
____ 1. consorting A. detested
____ 2. homage B. lasting for an unlimited time
____ 3. diligent C. impossible to avoid
____ 4. loathed D. outstanding, distinguished, of high quality
____ 5. perpetually E. a meeting arranged by lovers
____ 6. inevitable F. marked by careful, persistent effort
____ 7. tryst G. honor or respect that is shown publicly
____ 8. enamored H. associating with
____ 9. eminently
____ 10. disdainful J. showing contempt