Woods Runner Chapters 3-4

A good title for chapters 3-4 could be...

• A Race Through the Woods

• Bear Hunting

• A Savage Attack

Which word best describes Samuel?

• embarrassed

• confident

• instinctive/smart

Based on what we've read, the reader can infer...

• The settlers didn't have a chance because of the advanced weaponry at the time

• Animals played a part in the attack

• The war has come to Samuel's home in western Pennsylvania

Based on the events of the story, which of the following seems most likely?

• Samuel will use his knowledge of hunting and the forest to find his parents

• Samuel will go to Massachusetts where the battles are taking place.

• Samuel is now an orphan

Reorder the following

• Samuel walks 7-8 miles to hunt bear

• Samuel comes to a hilltop

• Samuel sees large towers of smoke coming from the direction of his home

• Samuel races back home

• Samuel finds the settlement burned and 9 bodies of his friends

Read the passage and decide what type of figurative language is being used.

"He frowned, looking at the smoke, willing it to not be what was coming into his mind like a dark snake, a slithering horror."

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

What type of figurative language is being used in the following passage?

"The green thickness that once helped him now seemed to clutch at him, pull him back, hold him."

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

What type of figurative language is being used in the following passage?

"All Samuel heard was the crackling of fire..."

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

What type of figurative language is used in the following passage?

"Dark caught him now."

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

What type of figurative language is being used in the following passage?

"He'd made good time, running hard until his lungs seemed to be on fire..."

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole