Aunty Misery

What is the conflict (problem) in paragraph 1?

• Aunty Misery is a lonely old woman

• The neighborhood kids are climbing Aunty Misery's tree.

• The old woman's hut was next to a pear tree.

What does the word "bade" mean?

• to fix

• to ask

• to command

"Shimmied" is a synonym for which word?

• taunt

• climb

• crawl

What genre is this story?

• folktale

• fantasy

• fiction

What happened to the children when they climbed the tree?

• Aunty Misery would not let them out of the tree.

• They stole Aunty Misery's pears.

• They got stuck.

"I am Death, and I have come to take you with me." WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED IN THIS SENTENCE?

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

What does the author compare Aunty Misery with in paragraph 8?

• Death

• The tree

• A Desert

"He answered her in a voice that was dry and hoarse, as if he had swallowed a desert." WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED IN THIS SENTENCE?

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

What is the setting of the story?

• A pear tree

• little hut

• catacomb

The author wrote this story to explain why...

• death comes to the elderly

• children should respect their elders

• there is so much misery in the world