| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| This book retells twelve tales from Greek mythology, including the stories of King Midas, Echo and Narcissus, the Golden Apples, and Cupid and Psyche, retold in an accessible style and magnificently illustrated with classic elegance. |
Entertain |
Myths |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 2178 |
5.2 |
930 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
34 |
Total # of Words |
3045 |
# of Different Words |
912 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2095 |
68.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
360 |
39.5% |
| % of Long Sentences |
16.5 |
Low Freq occurs |
230 |
7.6% |
# of Low freq words |
154 |
16.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Many difficult words |
| Language: Colorful, figurative |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Several Implications |
| Complexity: Several unrelated ideas |
| Concept: Fanciful |
| Chapters |
| Headings |
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| Features |
| Integral Setting - Cultural/Regional |
| Symbolism |
| Mood/tone |
| Personification |
| Difficult names |
| Unusual use of vocabulary |
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| Topics |
| Wishes |
| Challenges |
| Magic |
| Ghosts |
| Good/Evil |
| Kings/Queens |
| *Fictional Ideas/Charac |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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accidentally |
aeolus |
aflame |
agony |
alas |
alcyone |
alcyone's |
ambition |
arise |
assumed |
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assured |
attendants |
awakened |
banquet |
besieged |
blaming |
boundless |
breathed |
brooding |
burdened |
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careened |
ceyx |
ceyx's |
chariot |
cleansed |
constellations |
crescent |
crimmerian |
crimson |
curse |
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cursed |
curved |
delphi |
depths |
disappointed |
dread |
drowned |
ebony |
emerald |
emeralds |
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excitedly |
exhausted |
extinguished |
fastened |
fiery |
flung |
further |
ghostly |
goblet |
goddess |
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goddesses |
grant |
greatly |
grieved |
grieving |
halycon |
harnesses |
heaved |
helios |
hollow |
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hooves |
hospitable |
hurl |
hypnotized |
imaginable |
instructed |
jewel |
jingling |
juneau |
kneeled |
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leapt |
lethe |
lumbering |
mansion |
marveling |
messenger |
morpheus |
mount |
mountaintops |
mourned |
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mourning |
northern |
nostrils |
nugget |
nymph |
nymphs |
oaths |
olympus |
overjoyed |
pactolus |
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panic |
pawed |
phaeton |
phaeton's |
pillars |
plucked |
prove |
radiance |
rashly |
refused |
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regions |
reins |
rosy |
rough |
roused |
sailor |
satan |
savage |
scorpion |
searing |
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seawater |
sermons |
servants |
shield |
shielded |
sideways |
skies |
sleepily |
slumbering |
smoldering |
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snuffling |
soared |
solstice |
sorrow |
speared |
spilling |
stall |
stamping |
starlight |
stern |
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stinger |
stirred |
strode |
styx |
summoned |
sunbeams |
swear |
sweated |
swept |
terror |
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thunderbolt |
tomb |
torrents |
twilight |
underworld |
uneasily |
unleash |
veer |
venom |
voyage |
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warmth |
wheeled |
winged |
woodland |
yoked |
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