The Whale Rider Prologue

This prologue is a what type of story

• Creation story

• Simple myth or legend

• Anansi story

• Introduction

What was at the bottom of the world? that 'when you looked into it you felt you could see to the end of forever'

• a pool

• a sea

• a well

• a chasm

Even at the beginning in this story there was life in the land and the sea

• True

• False

Within the warm stomach of the rainforests - this is what literary device?

• alliteration

• anaphora

• metaphor

• simile

They swam in brilliant shoals, like rains of glittering dust - this is an example of what literary device

• alliteration

• anaphora

• metaphor

• simile

Waiting. Waiting for the seeding. Waiting for the gifting. Waiting for the blessing to come. This is an example of

• alliteration

• anaphora

• metaphor

• simile

What is the most important creature in the prologue - the bringer of blessing and 'seeds'?

• tuatara

• stingray

• pohutukawa

• whale

What does the man on the back of the whale throw?

• spears

• seeds

• fish

• magic dust