Tuck Everlasting Novel Test

Match the following:

• element which tell the reader the setting, characters and initial events

• rising action

• element that tells us the consequences of a character's decision "cools off"

• resolution

• element with the highest point of interest-where a major decision is made

• exposition

• element that includes major conflicts that "heat up" the story

• falling action

• element that ties up loose ends, may leave us with a cliffhanger

• climax

Match the following:

• extreme exaggeration

• personification

• comparison of two things using like or as

• simile

• comparing two things

• metaphor

• nonhuman thing given human qualities

• alliteration

• repeating sounds

• hyperbole

What did Jesse want Winnie to remember....

• stay in the prison cell

• drink from the spring

• always think of the Tucks

• keep Mae's escape a secret

What genre is Tuck Everlasting?

• nonfiction

• science fiction

• fantasy

• informational text

When Winnie was first taken, this helped her to calm down:​ (a)  

• music box
• Mae Tuck
• the horse
• the sun

How did the stranger first learn about the ageless family?

• his grandmother

• hiding in the woods

• from the spring

• his years in school

"Across a pond, a bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning."

• hyperbole

• Metaphor

• personification

• simile

"The sun was dropping, a soft red sliding egg yolk."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

"It was the hottest day yet...that the slightest exertion brought on a flood of perspiration."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Assess how you would feel if you were one of the Tucks. Which Tuck would you relate to most? Explain.