Woods Runner chapters 7-8

Explain a simple move that Samuel made in Chapter 7 that saved his life.

Which word best describes Samuel's relationship with nature?

• respectful

• reckless

• distant

• destructive

Read the following passage: "Just then, as he settled back to wait and think on some way to get to the captives without being discovered-the whole world blew up."

Which literary device is used in the passage?

• flashback (looking at something that happened in the past)

• idiom (doesn't really mean what it says)

• simile (the comparison of 2 unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• personification (giving people powers to things that aren't people)

A good title for Chapters 7-8 could be ____________.

• Almost Caught

• Caught up in a Battle

• Tracking the Enemy

• The Captives

What type of figurative language?

"...weapons that made a muffled barking sound."

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

What type of figurative language?

"Hunger took him like a wolf"

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

What type of figurative language?

"Samuel slide into the underbrush."

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Sequence the following events in the correct order. (your final answer should be a number followed by a space. for example: 1 2 3 4 5)

___ Samuel comes to an encampment.

___ Samuel was hit with a tomahawk

___ The natives began whooping and dancing around the campfire.

___Samuel eats corn.

___ As Samuel is drinking water, he spots 2 Native Americans.

___ Shots were fired from the north of the clearing.

What type of figurative language?

"...was like a hot knife in his brain."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Fill in the sentence with the correct word:

The ____________ dog growled at me.

hostile

pealed

fractious