Read the passage from theseus. of all his adventures, the one for which theseus is best known is his confrontation with the minotaur on the island of crete. the king of crete, minos, was the son of a god, jupiter, and a human, europa. the minotaur, a fearsome beast that was part man, part bull, was born to minos’s wife. the story went that king minos was once given a white bull to sacrifice to poseidon, but the bull was so beautiful he decided to sacrifice another bull instead. in revenge, poseidon caused king minos's wife, pasiphaë, to fall madly in love with the white bull. the minotaur was their offspring. as it grew older, it grew wilder and fed on humans, so king minos had him confined in a labyrinth built by the great artisan, daedalus. the passage most supports the conclusion that

a. most greeks had bold characters.
b. the greek people valued beauty.
c. most greeks had mixed parentage.
d. the greek people valued respect.

Which literary approach focuses primarily on the dynamics of power in a text?

Based on the information in the passage, what conclusion can the reader make?

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.