Raft and structure elements
w l'age 448 of your textbook does an excellent job of describing the kinds of things to
ook for. it breaks down the literary analysis process, read p. 448 and then complete the chart below.
in cach box, summarize the task of the reader in each category

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.

a constant variable, normally called a controlled variable, is the term for a variable that remains constant throughout an experiment, though other variables may change. an example is the water pressure for a faucet when measuring the amount of water released when the faucet is opened to various increments.