The Whale Rider - Epilogue

Flanking him were seven females, half his size, like back-gowned women, shepherding him gently downward.

This quotation contains what device?

• aliiteration

• metaphor

• repetition

• simile

The sea hissed and sparkled with love for the bull whale

This quotation contains what device

• anthropomorphism

• anaphora

• onamatopoeia

• personification

The bull whale believes he is carrying _______

• Koro Apirana

• Kahu

• Paikea

The sea was a giant liquid sky and the whales were descending...

This quotation contains which device?

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

The old mother whale cast her eyes downward, hoping that the bull whale would take this as a sign of feminine submission.

This is an example of

• anthropomorphism

• anaphora

• metaphor

• zoomorphism

The old mother whale explains the the rider is

• Paikeia's descendant

• Paikeia's ghost

• a flower

• the last spear

It is the old mother whale who persuades the ancient bull whale to return the rider to the land - as Paikea's seed she must be planted.

• True

• False

Nani Flowers collapses when Kahu disappears on the whale.

• True

• False

When Kahu is found floating in a nest of dark lustrous kelp in the middle of the ocean she is guarded by

• young bull whales

• the old mother whale

• dolphins

• various fish in a school surrounding here

Koro Apirana now recognises that Kahu is the one

• True

• False