How does Theseus respond after he enters the Labyrinth in "The Adventures of Theseus"? Theseus shouts loudly to get the Minotaur's attention and then rushes toward him and thrusts his sword into the monster and kills him.

Theseus leads the youths and the maidens a long way into the Labyrinth, but he fears he will lose his grip on the silken thread and won't be able to escape.

When the monster approaches the group, Theseus asks Athena for help because he knows he won't be able to protect everyone.

At first Theseus is ready for battle, but as the group waits for the Minotaur, Theseus begins to lose his courage to fight the monster.

As you progressed through old english texts to middle english to modern english, how did your understanding of the literature change?

Which excerpt from the war of the worldseffectively reveals how the author relates the climax of the narrative through the narrator's thoughts? the war of the worldsall this had happened with such swiftness that i had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. but it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar. and then, with a renewed horror, i saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. it was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. at that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the thing had come from the planet mars, but i judged it improbable that it contained any living creature. i thought the unscrewing might be automatic. my mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. yet it was a little too large for assurance on this idea. i felt an impatience to see it opened.

King shifts the idea of being "extremist" from something negative to something positive. how does the concluding sentence directly address his audience. ( lines 384 - 410, letter to birmingham)