People Places and Things
Where the flying people came from.
What is Africa?
The place Daedalus and Icarus wanted to escape.
What is Crete?
A poem about a man chasing a trout-girl his entire life.
What is "The Song of Aengus?"
Modern parents are too careful and risky challenges are healthy.
What is Abby's parents' opinion?
A statement that has seemingly contradictory ideas.
What is a paradox?
The woman who was the best and fastest weaver in Greece.
Who is Arachne?
The slave who was a wise old seer.
Who is Toby?
The poem dealing with happiness at night and misery during the day.
What is "Sonnet 43?"
The character quality of Arachne that is her fatal flaw.
What is pride?
A message about life or human nature that a writer shares with the reader.
What is theme?
The main characters stranded in a sinking sailboat.
Who are Scoot and Sully?
It's important to know your place.
What is the cultural values of Greece?
Lines that follow one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
What is meter?
Using "say" instead of "they say" and dropping the "g" from "hollering."
What is dialect?
The meaning of "silver apples of the moon and golden apples of the sun."
What is night and day?
An older, frail man with furry eyebrows.
Who is Gilbert's father?
When they are captures; it's too crowded on the slave ships; they are miserable and sick; they simple forgot how to fly.
What are reasons the people shed their wings?
The traditional rhyme scheme of a sonnet.
What is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g?
What is Arachne's tapestry?
Looking at the world through a specific "lens."
What is worldview?
A man who tied a berry to a twig and caught a trout.
Who is Aengus?
Flight is a fantastical metaphor of freedom and brings a sense of hope.
What is sharing an old slave folktale?
What is end rhyme?
The evidence used to prove Abby Sunderland's journey should have been stopped.
What is the 13-year-old girl in the Netherlands?
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What is Abby doesn't have a license to even drive?
To be free of time.
What is Gilbert's motivation?