Plot
"Tomorrow at sunrise you will find yourself gifted with the Golden Touch."
What is rising action?
A synonym for greed
What is avarice?
He had planted a garden with the biggest and beautifullest and sweetest roses...large, lovely and fragrant... Midas spent hours gazing at them and inhaling their perfume."
What is imagery?
"But Marygold made no answer."
What is the climax?
Impossible to satisfy
What is insatiable?
Midas was enjoying himself in his treasure room...when he perceived a shadow fall over the heaps of gold..."
What is foreshadowing?
"Plunge into the river that glides past the bottom of your garden..."
What is the resolution?
A spasm of strong emotions
What is tumult?
"Even the remotest corners had their share of it, and were lighted up, as with tips of flame and sparkles of fire."
What is simile?
What is imagery?
"This King Midas was fonder of gold than anything else in the world."
What is the conflict?
Embarrassment, humiliation, or shame
What is mortification?
"It had been a favorite phrase of Midas, whenever he felt particularly fond of the child, to say that she was worth her weight in gold."
What is irony?
He made it his custom, therefore, to pass a large portion of every day in the basement with his treasure.
What is the exposition?
Generous, charitable, or helpful
What is beneficent?
"The image of his face in his polished cup kept grinning at him...It seemed to be aware of his foolish behavior."
What is foreshadowing?