The Little Mermaid

What is the setting of this story?

• Far away under the sea.

• A long time ago, in a beautiful world under the sea.

• In 1763, in the ocean.

• In a kingdom under to water.

What is the main conflict in this story?

• The little mermaid loves the ocean.

• The little mermaid has a tail and can't walk, so she can't marry the prince.

• The little mermaid can't be with the prince because he doesn't love her.

• The little mermaid dies.

What is the resolution?

• The little mermaid sacrifices her life because she loves the prince.

• The little mermaid kills the prince with a knife.

• The little mermaid marries the Prince and lives happily ever after.

• The little mermaid goes back to live in the ocean with her family.

Before "The little mermaid" was an animated movie, it was a renowned fairy-tale written by Hans Christian Andersen, first published in 1835.

• True

• False

Why doesn't the little mermaid use the knife?

• She loves the prince too much.

• The beautiful woman is her sister.

• She wants to become bubbles.

• She doesn't know how to use it.

What is the climax of the story?

• When the Little Mermaid loses her voice.

• When the Prince decides to marry someone else.

• When the Little Mermaid sees the shipwreck.

• When the Little Mermaid dies.

Which is NOT a character in the story?

• The Prince

• The Sea Witch

• the Little Mermaid's sister

• The little fish

Which is NOT part of the exposition?

• "A long time ago,"

• "Mer-people were strange magical creatures with bodies...."

• "The king of the mer-people had six mermaid daughters."

• "So she swam to the prince, carried him back up to the surface...."

A section of a poem is called

• a metaphor

• personification

• stanza

• paragraph

My tongue was payment for the witch's potion is an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification