Tuck Everlasting 1-5

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning." This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What are the dog days of summer?

• They are days when you take your dog for a walk.

• They are days when hotdogs are free in the summertime.

• They are the hottest days days of summer.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

How often does Mae Tuck see her sons in Treegap?

• every August

• every 10 years

• every weekend

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is Winnie Foster thinking about doing?

• taking a walk

• running away

• going with the stranger who comes to her gate

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

"The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel." What is this an example of?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the long description of the cow path an example of?

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

• imagery

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What does the idiom, "touch-me-not appearance", mean?

• Unfriendly, unapproachable, stay away!

• Please stop by to visit!

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"The house was so proud of itself" uses what kind of figurative language?

• personification

• cliche'

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why don't lots of people go in the wood?

• The road went around it.

• The wood is haunted.

• It is private property.

• It is too dense to explore.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

"And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin" shows which kinds of figurative language?

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3