Across
- 3. a person who prepared and sold medicines
- 4. competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field
- 5. the sun god whose cattle are disturbed by Odysseus and his men
- 8. Romeo’s cousin; the “peace-keeper”
- 11. the only daughter of the Capulets
- 13. the son of The Odyssey’s protagonist
- 14. a state of prolonged unconsciousness where a person is unresponsive to their surroundings
- 19. when a story begins in the middle of the action (three words; write them all as one word without spaces)
- 21. "The Story of David and _______"
- 24. imaginary stories that explain the natural world
- 25. this charcater raises Juliet as a baby and later acts as her messenger
- 26. a conclusion that you draw from a reading by applying your background knowledge to the information contained within the text
- 27. the goddess of wisdom and Odysseus’s mentor
- 28. the protagonist of The Odyssey, who devised the plan of the Trojan Horse and whose journey home from the Trojan War makes up the narrative
Down
- 1. a journey to the Underworld
- 2. the man who agrees to wed Romeo and Juliet; "Friar ________"
- 6. the cyclops who captures Odysseus and his men
- 7. the last name of the author of Romeo & Juliet
- 9. a nymph who has been holding Odysseus captive on an island called Ogygia
- 10. the man believed to have written The Odyssey
- 12. a community, place, or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristic qualities or features of something much larger
- 15. a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person
- 16. a short story capturing brief periods in time (as make up The House on Mango Street)
- 17. the wife of The Odyssey’s protagonist
- 18. a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that may have been exposed to infectious disease are placed
- 20. the god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses
- 22. Romeo loves her at the start of the play – but she doesn’t love him
- 23. Juliet’s cousin; the “hot-head”