WorksheetsMississippi Solo
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 13mins
Define: Simile
Compares two things without using like or as.
Gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.
Compares two things using "like" or "as".
Extreme exaggeration.
Define: Metaphor
Compares two things using "like" or "as".
Gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.
Extreme exaggeration used for effect.
Compares two things without using like or as.
Define: Hyperbole
Compares two things using "like" or "as".
Extreme exaggeration for affect.
Compares two things without using "like" or "as".
Gives human characteristics to non-human things.
Define: Personification
Compares two things using "like" or "as".
Extreme exaggeration used for affect.
Compares two things without using "like" or "as".
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
Define: Alliteration
Sound words, example: buzz.
Two words that contradict but have a real meaning, example: Jumbo Shrimp
Two words back to back that start with the same first letter, example: She sells sea shells.
A common saying that can't be taken literally, example: "It's raining cats and dogs."
Define: Onomatopoeia
Sound words, example: Buzz, hiss
Two words that contradict but have a real meaning, example: Jumbo Shrimp
Two words back to back that begin with the same first letter, example: She sells sea shells.
A common phrase that can't be taken literally, example: It's raining cats and dogs.
Define: Idiom
Sound words, example: buzz, hiss.
Two words that seem to contradict but have a real meaning, example: Jumbo Shrimp
Two words back to back that start with the same first letter, example: She sells sea shells.
A common phrase that can't be taken literally, example: It's raining cats and dogs.
What element reveals that Mississippi Solo is a memoir?
Figurative language
Sequence of events
First-person pronouns
Sentence fragments
Which of these sentences from the text is a sentence fragment (incomplete sentence)?
"If you only get sunshine, someone said, you end up in a desert."
"I guess I'd had enough hard days to last me for a while, enough scary times to be able to appreciate the peaceful, easy, glorious days."
"No singing, no thinking, no talking to myself."
None of these are sentence fragments.
Why does the author choose to write in sentence fragments?
The author is uneducated and doesn't know the difference.
He helps to create meaning for the reader by expressing his own thoughts as he experienced them.
He's too tired to write in complete sentences.
There aren't any sentence fragments, he just writes different than most other authors.
How does an avalanche move?
Rapidly
Smoothly
Slowly
Haltingly
What are you doing when you insulate something?
Moving it to another location.
Filling it with water.
Making it more important.
Keeping heat from passing through it.
What happens when something splinters?
It breaks up
It bends over
It makes a loud noise.
It joins together.
What is etherial?
Cold and wet.
Loud and noisy.
Light and airy.
Heavy and solid.
Which of these sentences uses the word insulate correctly?
The insulate was so loud I had to plug my ears.
He insulated me and it hurt my feelings.
Insulating has become a growing sport over the past 10 years.
His drink was cold, so in order to insulate it he kept it in a mug with a lid.
"It had been something so very definite that I could feel it and yet so ethereal that I could not put my finger on it."
What does the author mean when he uses the word ethereal in this sentence from lines 95-97?
The "voice" he heard was loud and clear.
The "voice" he heard was very subtle and unreal even though it felt real.
The "voice" he heard was so loud that it felt unreal.
The "voice" he heard was coming from an animal in the water.
Which of these an example of how the author uses simile?
The river kept me company.
I felt the river dip down and up- a shallow dale in the water.
No sooner had I ducked into the trees than the sky split open with a loud crash and a splintery crackle of lightning.
The tips of the trees bent way over and aimed toward the ground, like fishing rods hooked on a big one.
Which of these sentences from the text show the authors use of onomatopoeia?
The river was talking to me, changing colors from puce to brown to thick, murky green.
Nothing else mattered then.
No sooner had I ducked into the trees than the sky split open with a loud crash and a splintery crackle of lightning.
The tips of the trees bent way over and aimed toward teh ground, like fishing rods hooked on a big one.
Which sentence from the text is an example of personification?
The river was talking to me, changing colors from puce to brown to thick, murky green.
The day turned gray and strange.
No sooner had I ducked into the trees than the sky split open with a loud crash and a splintery, crackle of lightning.
The trees were tall and no more than three feet around.
What evidence in the text supports inferences about the author's past?
Each change had something to say, and I listened to the river.
Too many marvelous days in a row and yo begin to get used to it.
I guess I'd had enough hard days to last me for a while.
Nothing else mattered then. Going someplace or not.
How did the author first know that a storm was approaching?
He felt the river dip up and down.
He passed through a pocket of thin dry air.
The river whispered to him, "Get ready."
The river was changing colors.
The author regards the river as
a threat
a friend
an obstacle
an inspiration
Why does the author personify the river as a friend?
He kept hearing noises that made it seem as if the river was really speaking to him.
Its a way for him to express how he felt close and connected to the river.
He was hallucinating (day-dreaming) and really thought the river was talking to him.
None of the above.
What is abnormal (not normal) about the authors reaction to the storm.
That he was on the river during a storm.
That he wasn't afraid but instead was amazed and calm.
That he jumped in the water and started swimming.
Nothing, he was anxious as his canoe began to sink.
