The Art of Taxidermy

What is this an example of: "The house reverberated

with the clatter of silver"

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

What is this an example of: "Rewired, reconstructed, resurrected, rewound, revised the present. Rewrote the past."

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

What is this an example of: "...as they circled and settled like white flags in the surrounding gums."

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

What is this an example of: "the floor was a dark sea"

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

What is this an example of: "The ground swallowed many tears."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

What is a stanza?

• It's like a paragraph in a poem.

• It's an Italian word meaning 'poem'.

• It's the number of lines in a poem.

• It is a type of poem that rhymes.

What does it mean when the words are written in italics in The Art of Taxidermy?

• There was a problem with the printer.

• The narrator is thinking.

• We are not meant to read those words.

• A character is speaking out loud.

What might the poem titled 'SCHOOL' be about?

• Sewing with Aunt Hilda.

• Going to the zoo.

• An experience at school.

• Eating an egg.

How much of the novel have you read?

• All of it, more than once.

• I've almost finished it.

• About half.

• Less than half.

• I have barely started or have not started at all.