ENGLISH 10

Name: ____________________________ Grade & Section: _____________ Date: __________

Directions: Arrange the order of the parts of the plot from the story Orpheus. Write the
letter
of the correct answer in Column B.

ORPHEUS
Column A Column B
1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Resolution

A. Orpheus is a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and
myth. He has the ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music.
B. Orpheus met and wooed the maiden, Eurydice. They were married. Directly after
their wedding, as the bride walks in the meadow with her bridesmaid, a viper bit her
and caused to death.
C. Orpheus went to the underworld and successfully convinced Hades and Persephone
to give his wife in a condition that he should not turn a glimpse to her until they reach
the world of the living. They pass the great doors of Hades to the path that which
would take them out of the darkness. Climbing up and up. But when they almost
there, and he turned to her. It was too soon in the cavern. He saw her in the dim light
and held out his arms to clasp her, but on the instant, she was gone.
D. Desperately, he tried to rush after her and follow her down, but he is not allowed.
The Gods did not allow him to go down to land of the dead the second time, while he
is alive.
E. He wandered through the wild solitude of Thrace, comfortless except for his lyre,
playing, always playing, the rocks and the rivers and the trees, his only companions.