Jumbies chapter 16

What is a wound?

Use context clues on page 88.

• a bandage

• a cut

• a type of fruit

• a type of road

Personification is giving a quality of a person to something that is NOT a person. Which of the following phrases from page 88 is an example of personification?

• she limped up the dusty road

• Severine's eyes had the same gleam

• her heart beat inside her chest

• the forest on her right seemed to crowd around her

There is another example of personification on page 89, what is it?

• pushed aside a tangle of branches

• the shrub shivered

• the shiver crawled up her arm like a wave of insects

• she followed the shaking path of leaves

A simile is a figure of speech that compares one thing to a different thing. Which of the phrases from page 89 is an example of a simile?

• A few harmless animals scurried away from her feet

• She swallowed hard and moved on.

• her pulse quickened

• the shiver crawled up her arm like a wave of insects

What did Corrine find in the forrest in chapter 16?

• douens

• her friends

• witches

• oranges

What are douens? Choose the 2 best answers.

• baby spirits

• baby witches

• baby jumbies

• baby agouties

On page 91 it says: "Corrine kept moving though each step felt harder than the last, like swimming against a current."

What is this an example of?

• personification

• simile

What's odd about the douens, or baby spirits', feet?

• they're very large

• they're very small

• they don't have any feet

• they're pointed backward

What saved Corrine from the douens?

• a frog

• an orange

• her father

• the witch

What does Corrine think about the frog?