Tiger Rising

What type of figurative language is being used?

Rob grabbed hold of the cage and shook it. "Get," he said. The tiger stopped pacing and turned to stare at them both clinging like monkeys to the cage.

• metaphor

• personification

• similie

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What type of figurative language is being used?

"I ought to teach him a lesson" his father said. The cords in his neck stood out like twigs.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What figurative language is being used?

His father read the note from the principal slowly, putting his finger under the words as if they were bugs he was trying to keep still.

• metaphor

• similie

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What figurative language is being used? She ran with him. She let him hold on to her hand. It was an impossibly small and bony hand, as delicate as the skeleton of a baby bird.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What figurative language is being used.

The gold chains buried deep in Beauchamp's orange chest hair winked at Rob.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What figurative language is being used? Fog was hugging the ground.

• similie

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What figurative language is being used? The rain had stopped, but the whole world was wet.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• similie

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

When Rob and Sistine tell Willie May about the tiger, they both have different ideas about what she will say. What does Sistine hope she will say? What does Rob hope she will say?

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

According to Willie May, why does Rob have a rash?

• hate

• love

• happiness

• saddness

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why does Principal Phelmer ask Rob to leave the school?

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1