Rikki-Tikki/Figurative Language Review

Name the characters in the story (at least three), and who the main character is.

What was the conflict of the story? (Something the main character is hoping to get throughout the entire story). 

How would you describe the main character? Why?

Provide a brief summary of the story

What was the lesson behind the story?

The definition of the word sluice is

• A roof of a house.

• a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate.

• A veranda

• Shower head

What is the difference between a bungalow and a burrow?

:Rikki-tikki smashed two eggs, and tumbled backward down the melon-bed with the third egg in his mouth, and scuttled to the verandah as hard as he could put foot to the ground. Teddy and his mother and father were there at early breakfast; but Rikki-tikki saw that they were not eating anything."

If I am scuttling away, what style of running am I doing?

• I am running with excitement.

• I am running away, in fear.

• I am running out of time.

• I am running slowly.

Giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object or animal. 

• Personification

• Humanification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Words that imitate sounds. 

• Onaomopoeia

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

• Alliteration

• Personification