AIRBORN

Which character does the author develop through narration in this part of the text?

• Matt

• Benjamin Molly (gradpa)

• Kate

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.6

Which character does the author develop through journal entries?

• Matt Cruse

• Benjamin Molley (grandpa)

• Kate

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

When the author describes the volcano in the story as "she" what type of figurative language is that?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is one of the problems/conflicts in the story?

• Kate and Matt get stuck on an island looking for grandpa.

• Kate gives Matt a journal to read from her grandpa and he doesn't believe what he is reading.

• Kate doesn't believe her grandpa's journal entries.

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CCSS.RL.5.2

What is Kate trying to do to help her grandpa?

• Prove that he was write and the journal entries are real.

• Prove that her grandpa has gone crazy.

• Prove that her grandpa is delirious.

What is a simile?

• compares two things by saying one is like another

• compares two things by using like or as

• compares many things

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"The mother flew close alongside its child as if giving advice" What time of figurative language is this?(Hint: More than one correct answer)

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence "everyone was watching the eruption, talking and pointing excitedly and snapping pictures."

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Why does the lady from the Zoological Society not believe grandpa and all his journal entries?

• because he is crazy

• because she states that if those animals were true other people would have also saw them

• because it sounds to unbelievable

• because he is too old to be floating on a balloon

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CCSS.RI.5.3

According to the details in the passage, Molloy’s journal can best be described as

• dirty

• damaged

• destroyed

• decorative

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4