Greek Myths
The Golden Touch
King Midas's Daughter
Vocabulary
Misc.....
100

This is an old story passed through the years to explain things or to teach important lessons.

What is a myth?

100

This is where the king's guards found the old man?

What is under the rosebushes?

100

This is King Midas's daughter's name.

What is Aurelia?

100

This means to wash or clean.

What is cleanse?

100

This is why King Midas kept one golden rose.

What is to remind him that some things are more precious than gold?

200

This the moral or lesson learned in the story about the wise owl.

What is, "You get what you get, and don't throw a fit!" or to be grateful for what you do have.

200

This is who gave King Midas the Golden Touch.

What is the young man with the glow/old man from the dinner?

200

How did King Mida's daughter react to the golden roses?

What is she was sad?

200

This is the land owned by the King.

What is realm?

200

Describe the setting of the story.

What is the Kingdom/Palace?

300

They found the old man in the garden.

What are the soldiers?

300

This is the reason the person wanted to give King Midas a gift.

What is because the King did not charge him for tresspressing.  The King was nice to him.

300

This is how King Midas changed his daughter back from a golden statue.

What is sprinkle river water on her?

300

This means not predictable or not expected.

What is unforseen?

300

Giving human qualities to an object or animal.

What is Personification?

400

Comparisons made using words "like" or "as".

What are similies?

400

This was the first thing to turn to gold.

What is his bedsheets or linens?

400

This what King Midas's daughter missed most about her roses.

What is the scent?

400

This means to feel sorrow or feel sorry.

What is penitence?

400

A warning of a future event.

What is a foreshadowing?

500

The first thing King Midas feared after getting the golden touch.

What is starving to death?

500

This is how King Midas reversed the spell.

What is jump into the river?

500

This is what King Midas bought her father every morning.

What is a rose?

500

The main idea of a subject or story.

What is a theme?

500

Where did King Midas keep his gold?

What is in the dungeon/secret chamber?

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