Who was Zeus?
Zeus was a God.
Who was Prometheus?
Prometheus was a Titan.
How did Prometheus get the fire for the humans?
Prometheus stole the fire from the sun / Hephaestus.
What is the plot of a story?
What happens in the story.
What was Zeus protecting the humans from by not giving them fire?
Zeus was protecting humans from disease, war, old age, and worry.
What did Prometheus believe fire would help humans to do?
Prometheus believed fire would help humans protect themselves from beasts, weather, and to cook their food.
What did Zeus look down and see humans doing once they had fire?
Zeus saw humans cooking their food, building woodmen's huts, farm houses, villages, walled towns, castles, ships, torches, spears, and riding out to do battle like the Gods themselves.
giving HUMAN characteristics and abilities to
something non-human.
How does Zeus punish Prometheus?
Prometheus is chain to a mountain and vultures/eagles peck at his liver everyday.
Prometheus wants humans to be different from...
beasts.
What does Zeus believe will happen to humans with the fire?
They will destroy themselves.
What is the theme of the story?
The theme is the life lesson the author wants you to take away from reading the Fiction text.
Why does Zeus claim that "man is happy" now when talking to Prometheus?
The humans do not have anything to be unhappy about.
When Prometheus gives fire to humans, does this cause a positive or negative change on earth?
Positive!
Prometheus myth helps to explain...
fire's origin.
What does it mean to infer?
They are asking you to read between the lines!
Use what you already know