Reading Fundamentals Extension

1. A word describing the great care and attention to detail used by scribes.
3. A comparison used to describe the library as the "light" of human progress.
5. People who worked with meticulous care to ensure knowledge remained immortal.
7. The Greek word and shrine to the Muses from which "museum" is derived.
10. The text uses this word to define the use of "burning sun" as a description.
11. The scholars who were dedicated to the arts and sciences.
12. The human trait to which the library was an unprecedented monument.
14. The material across which the scribes' pens scratched.
15. The literary device used when pens are compared to the "pitter-patter of rain."
18. The literary device used in "consuming, cracking, and crushing heat."

2. A word used to describe knowledge that is preserved through repetition of labor.
4. To arrange things into an organized system, as scholars did with human thought.
5. The original meaning of the Greek Mouseion, dedicated to the Muses.
6. The study of the origin of words, used to explain the history of "museum."
8. A term used to describe a loss that cannot be undone or repaired.
9. An adverb used to describe the steady, musical scratching of the pens.
13. A vocabulary word meaning never ending or changing.
16. A word describing the complex, many-sided map of the ancient mind.
17. A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds used to describe the library's destruction.