Show:
"The Flight of Icaris"
Arachne
Icaris' Flight (Poem)
Women in Aviation
Vocab
100
The name of Icaris' father
Who is Daedalus
100
Arachne's talent
What is weaving
100
The author meant this by saying "his anticipated plummeting" (line 7)
What is he would eventually fall
100
The distinction of Harriet Quimby
What is she was the first American woman to become a licensed pilot
100
Exhibition
What is a performance
200
The materials used for making the wings
What is wax and feathers
200
The goddess who Arachne was compared to
Who is Athene (Athena)
200
The reason the writer extended the lines and stanzas into a new stanza
What is to engage the reader and keep them interested
200
The distinction of Bessie Coleman
What is the first African-American woman to become a licensed pilot
200
Prowess
What is strength
300
The place the characters were trying to escape from
What is the Island of Crete
300
The disguise Athene had
Who is an old woman
300
The structure of the poem
What is question and answer
300
The reason Coleman learned to fly in France
What is the radical prejudices in the United States
300
Moderate
What is "just enough"
400
The type of building Daedulas created for Icaris in Sicily
What is a temple
400
This design on Arachne's cloth insulted Athene
What is a scene showing the gods doing evil or unworthy actions
400
The theme from the poem
What is test your limits to know what is possible
400
This caused the United States to lag in having a strong aviation program
What is African-Americans went to Europe to learn how to fly
400
Strive (from the context of "Arache")
What is compete
500
The theme from "The Flight of Icaris"
What is to know your place
500
The theme from "Arache"
What is human beings should know their place
500
The poem means by “the exact point where freedom stopped” (lines 4–5)?
What is the point when Icaris could no longer fly
500
These two factors contributed to the death of Quimby and Coleman
What is not having a parachute and not wearing a seat belt
500
Inundate
What is to overwhelm