Memoirs- Mississippi Solo and Polar Dream

What element reveals that this selection is a memoir?

• figurative language
• sequence of events
• first person pronouns
• sentence fragments

What evidence in the text supports inferences about the author's past?

• Too many marvelous days in a row and you begin to get used to it.
• I guess I'd had enough hard days to last me for a while
• Each change had something to say and I listened to the river.
• Nothing else mattered then.  Going someplace or not

The author regards the river as

• a friend
• an obstacle
• an ispiration
• a threat

How did the author first know that a storm was approaching?

• The river was changing colors.

• The river whispered to him, "Get ready."

• He felt the river dip down and up.

• He passed through a pocket of thin dry air.

Which of the following is an example of the author's use of simile?

• The river kept me company and kept me satisfied.  Nothing else mattered.
• I passed through the far curtain of the insulated air.
• The tips of the trees bent way over...like fising rods hooked on a big one.
• The trees swooshed loudly as the leaves and branches brushed hard together.

As the storm approached, the author intended to head for shore.  Why did he turn into the trees instead?

• He thought that the trees would provide better shelter.
• He was afraid there would not be time to reach the shore.
• The river spoke to him and grabbed the end of his canoe.
• The shoreline had been pushed back through the trees.

An avalanche moves

• slowly
• haltingly
• smoothly
• rapidly

When you insulate something, you

• move it to another location.
• keep heat from passing through it.
• fill it with water.
• make it more important.

Personification is...

• comparing using "like" or "as"
• giving human traits to nonhuman things
• saying things are like other things
• using the same beginning sound in several words in one line

Which of the following describes a memoir?

• an informational article

• historical fiction

• realistic fiction written in 1st person

• a factual account of the author's life written in 1st person