Term Around . . .
A fable has these two features.
What are animal characters and a moral/lesson at the end?
This royal couple ruled Mt. Olympus and often fought.
Who are Zeus and Hera?
The servant in "The White Snake" caused the death of these two animals.
What are a duck and a horse?
In "The Prodigal Son," the son asks his father for this at the beginning of the story.
What is his inheritance?
Finnegas agrees to teach Fionn this.
What is poetry?
This term helps explain a phenomenon from the natural world.
What is a myth?
This blind seer made a prediction about Narcissus.
Who is Tiresias?
These three animals help the servant in "The White Snake."
What are ravens, ants, and fish?
In "The Prodigal Son," the father orders this to celebrate the son's return.
What is killing the fatted calf to eat at a party?
"The Silver Pool" is this type of story (answer with a literary term).
What is a legend?
A fairy tale has these two features.
What is a medieval setting and the supernatural?
Daedalus and Icarus were trapped on this island.
Where is Crete?
The repetition of the number three in "The White Snake" is an example of this literary term.
What is a motif?
Goha steals all his neighbor's pots by telling him of this.
What is the death of the pots?
John Henry had this job.
What is a railroad driver?
This type of character comes up again and again in stories.
What is a stock character?
Daedalus and Icarus used this to hold feathers onto their wings.
What is wax?
"The Fox and the Crow" is written by this author.
Who is Aesop?
The crow loses this to the fox.
What is cheese?
Finngas was doing this when Fionn first saw him.
What is fishing (or trying to find the salmon of knowledge)?
This is the difference between appearance and reality, and it's often funny.
What is irony?
Daedalus' nephew invented these two useful items.
What is a saw and a compass?
"The Prodigal Son" is preceded by a story of one of these lost animals.
What is a sheep?
Pots giving birth and dying are examples of this literary term.
What is personification?
"Go Down, Moses" has many allusions to what biblical book?
What is Exodus?