Figurative Language: The World on the Turtle's Back

In the beginning, there was no world, no land, no creatures of the kind that are around us now, and there were no men.

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• parallel structure

Name the device: (about the great tree) "It was tremendous... it had enormous roots that spread out from the Sky-World. And on its branches, there were many different kinds of leaves and different kinds of fruits and flowers."

"Flying wingtip to wingtip they made a great feathery raft in the sky to support her"

• allusion

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

What device are the two arrows in the story? Remember, there was one sharp and one blunt, and they were placed on the mother's belly.

What device is it when the grandmother favors the left-handed twin, who killed her daughter?

• irony

• imagery

• symbol

• metaphor

The left-handed twin, the devious one, tells the truth about what thing would hurt him. What device is this?

Type the words that make an alliteration: "The sacred scent of tobacco rising from the earth comes gloriously to his nostrils".

What device is it when the Iroquois write things like "Our grandmother, the moon" or, when talking about corn, beans, and squash "our supporters, the three sisters"?