Exploring Tuck Everlasting Chapters 12 & 13

The video tutorial explores chapters 12 and 13, focusing on identifying figurative language such as personification, similes, and metaphors. In chapter 12, Tuck reflects on the cycle of life and nature, explaining to Winnie the importance of change and growth. Winnie grapples with the concept of mortality and the desire to be part of life's cycle. Chapter 13 introduces the man in the yellow suit, who brings news about Winnie's whereabouts.

What is personification?

• Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'

• A type of exaggeration

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• Comparing two unlike things

Which of the following is an example of a simile?

• The surface of the pond was like color spilled from a paint box.

• The sun was a sliding egg yolk.

• The sky was a ragged blaze of pink.

• The trees were silhouettes clipped from black paper.

What does Tuck compare life to?

• A road

• A river

• A wheel

• A tree

What does Tuck say about the water in the pond?

• It is stagnant.

• It never changes.

• It is always moving and changing.

• It is always the same.

What realization does Winnie come to about life and death?

• She will never grow old.

• She can choose when to die.

• She will eventually die.

• She will live forever.

What does Tuck say about living without dying?

• It is a curse.

• It is not truly living.

• It is a gift.

• It is a blessing.

What does Tuck compare the people who drink from the spring to?

• Birds in the sky

• Fish in a pond

• Trees in a forest

• Rocks by the side of the road

What does Tuck say would happen if people knew about the spring?

• They would destroy it.

• They would protect it.

• They would come running to drink from it.

• They would avoid it.

What does the man in the yellow suit tell Winnie's grandmother?

• He is looking for the Tucks.

• He wants to buy the house.

• He knows where Winnie is.

• He has found the spring.

What time of day does the man in the yellow suit arrive at the Fosters' house?

• Morning

• Almost midnight

• Afternoon

• Evening