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WorksheetsAunty Misery
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
What is the conflict (problem) in paragraph 1?
Aunty Misery is a lonely old woman
The neighborhood kids are climbing Aunty Misery's tree.
The old woman's hut was next to a pear tree.
What does the word "bade" mean?
to fix
to ask
to command
"Shimmied" is a synonym for which word?
taunt
climb
crawl
What genre is this story?
folktale
fantasy
fiction
What happened to the children when they climbed the tree?
Aunty Misery would not let them out of the tree.
They stole Aunty Misery's pears.
They got stuck.
"I am Death, and I have come to take you with me." WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED IN THIS SENTENCE?
hyperbole
metaphor
personification
What does the author compare Aunty Misery with in paragraph 8?
Death
The tree
A Desert
"He answered her in a voice that was dry and hoarse, as if he had swallowed a desert." WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED IN THIS SENTENCE?
metaphor
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
What is the setting of the story?
A pear tree
little hut
catacomb
The author wrote this story to explain why...
death comes to the elderly
children should respect their elders
there is so much misery in the world
