Little House on Prairie

How do you know that this story is a historical fiction?

• The setting is realistic with factual or made up details.

• The plot is broken into 3 events.

• The characters do not behave like real humans.

• The plot is interesting.

What sentence below does not use descriptive language?

• "Her middle shook, and tears poured out of her stinging eyes."

• "The wind rose to a high, crackling, rushing, shriek, flames climbed into the crackling air."

• "Put the sacks in it!"

• "The sky was black now, the air was dark as if the sun had set."

Before Ma knew it was a prairie fire, she thought it was..

• going to storm.

• a big herd of cattle going across the prairie.

• the sun rising.

• that she was getting sick and seeing things.

Who was putting out the fires?

• Pa and Ma

• the whole family

• Pa and Laura

• Ma and Laura

Which of the following does NOT help the reader visualize the setting:

• "...snatching at the dry grass..."

• "Pa plowed a long furrow west of the house and south of the house..."

• "Hurry, Caroline."

• "The whole prairie was hopping with rabbits."