James and the Giant Peach chapters 1-2 Comprehension Questions

A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared using the words "like" or "as".

Sentence: The Ocean spread out below him like a magic carpet.

1. What two subjects are compared in the previous sentence?

A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared using the words "like" or "as".

Sentence: The ocean spread out below him like a magic carpet.

1. What does this simile tell you about the ocean?

The following simile compares which two objects?

1. Aunt Sponge was like a great white soggy overboiled cabbage

1. 1. What is being compared in the following simile?

2. 2. What does this information tell you about Aunt Spong?

Sentence: Aunt Sponge was like a great white soggy overboiled cabbage.

What fact about the death of the parents of James Henry Trotter suggests that this will be a fantasy story?

Why was James miserable in the story?

Journal Entry

As soon as he opened the___book, the pages crumbled in his hands

• enormous

• vast

• ancient

• shining

Our once busy home felt____once the children left.

• desolate

• ramshackle

• nuisance

• spectacles

I must have the frames on my ____ tightened because they keep slipping down on my nose.

• radiant

• vast

• spectacles

• enormous