Rikki Tikki Tavi: Fig. Lang. and Story Elements

Name the figurative language in each of the text examples from Rikki-Tikki- Tavi.
"...he could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottle-brush, and his war-cry, as he scuttled through the long grass, was: ``Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!''

• simile and metaphor
• simile and onomatopoeia 
• metaphor and simile
• alliteration and silime

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which story element is represented in this passage of the story:
"One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a little wisp of grass floating there, and clung to it till he lost his senses. When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying: ``Here's a dead mongoose. Let's have a funeral.''`
      `No,'' said his mother; ``let's take him in and dry him. Perhaps he isn't really dead.''  They took him into the house, and a big man picked him up between his finger and thumb, and said he was not dead but half choked; so they wrapped him in cotton-wool, and warmed him, and he opened his eyes and sneezed.``

•  Setting
• Climax
• Exposition
• Resolution

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

What literary device is being used during this scene from Rikki-Tikki Tavi?
Teddy's mother and father came in, the last thing, to look at their boy, and Rikki-tikki was awake on the pillow. ``I don't like that,'' said Teddy's mother; ``he may bite the child.'' ``He'll do no such thing,'' said the father. ``Teddy's safer with that little beast than if he had a bloodhound to watch him. If a snake came into the nursery now..."

• Foreshadow
• Anticipation
• Flashback
• Plot element

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.5

What plot element is represented from this event in Rikki Tikki Tavi?
"`Behind you! Look behind you!'' sang Darzee.Rikki-tikki knew better than to waste time in staring. He jumped up in the air as high as he could go, and just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag's wicked wife. She had crept up behind him as he was talking, to make an end of him; and he heard her savage hiss as the stroke missed." 

• Exposition
• Climax
• Initiating Event
• Conclusion

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

What literary element is represented in the following quote from the story:
"Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot" 

• The symbolic color of red meaning anger
• Foreshadowing a battle with Nag
• The resolution of the conflict of Character vs Character
• The signaling of the climax between Nagaina and Rikki

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CCSS.RL.6.4

Using the following quote, answer the question as to what the quote has to do with the story elements:
"Rikki-tikki knew he was a young mongoose, and it made him all the more pleased to think that he had managed to escape a blow from behind. It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted."

• It discussed Rikki's physical traits of his characterization
• It demonstrated Rikki's round character
• It supported Rikki's internal conflict of lack of experience fighting snakes
• It supported the resolution of the external conflict Character vs Character (Rikki vs. Cobras)

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What figurative language is represented in the following quote:
"But just as Teddy was stooping, something flinched a little in the dust, and a tiny voice said: ``Be careful. I am death!'' It was Karait, the dusty brown snakeling that lies for choice on the dusty earth; and his bite is as dangerous as the cobra's."

• Simile
• metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What figurative Language is being represented in the following quote:
"That night, at dinner, walking to and fro among the wine-glasses on the table, he could have stuffed himself three times over with nice things; but he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant to be patted and petted by Teddy's mother, and to sit on Teddy's shoulder, his eyes would get red from time to time, and he would go off into his long war-cry of ``Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!''

• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Repetition
• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What figurative language is represented in the following quote:
"...a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane, -- the dry scratch of a snake's scales on brick-work."

• Alliteration and metaphor
• Alliteration and simile
• Alliteration only
• Simile and onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What story element is represented in the following quote when Rikki attacks Nag in the bathroom:
"It must be the head,'' he said at last; ``the head above the hood; and when I am once there, I must not let go.''Then he jumped. The head was lying a little clear of the water-jar, under the curve of it; and, as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head"

• Plot
• Exposition
• Setting
• Falling Action

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5