Mississippi Solo + Words & Phrases

The author regards the river as

• a friend
• an obstacle
• an ispiration
• a threat

Ho did the author first know that a storm was approaching?

• The river was changing colors.
• The river whispered to him, Get ready.
• He felt the river dip down and up.
• He passed through a pocket of thin dry air.

Which of the following is an example of the author's use of simile?

• The river kept me company and kept me satisfied.  Nothing else mattered.
• I passed through the far curtain of the insulated air.
• The tips of the trees bent way over...like fising rods hooked on a big one.
• The trees swooshed loudly as the leaves and branches brushed hard together.

When you insulate something, you

• move it to another location.
• keep heat from passing through it.
• fill it with water.
• make it more important.

To splinter means to

• break up
• join together
• bend over
• make a loud noise

Something that is ethereal is

• heavy and cold
• cold and wet
• light and airy
• loud and noisy

Define: Simile

• Compares two things without using like or as.

• Gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• Compares two things using "like" or "as".

• Extreme exaggeration.

Define: Metaphor

• Compares two things using "like" or "as".

• Gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• Extreme exaggeration used for effect.

• Compares two things without using like or as.

Define: Personification

• Compares two things using "like" or "as".

• Extreme exaggeration used for affect.

• Compares two things without using "like" or "as".

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

What element reveals that Mississippi Solo is a memoir?

• Figurative language

• Sequence of events

• First-person pronouns

• Sentence fragments