WorksheetsThe Big One
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who is the main character in this story?
Sal is the main character in the story.
Salmon is the main character in the story.
The truck
Is Sal's character telling the story? If not, who is?
Sal is the main character and the story narrator.
Sal is telling the story.
He is not telling it. The story is narrated by an unnamed person who is not a character in the story. It is told by a third-person narrator.
Read the sentence “It grumbled like an old mule as it climbed the steep, winding road.” What does this comparison tell you about the narrator’s point of view about the truck?
The narrator is using a simile. His point of view is that the truck doesn’t work very well, but he’s telling it in a way that makes it seem as though the truck has a life of its own.
The narrator is using a metaphor. His point of view is that the truck doesn't work very well. He doesn't use the words like or as.
The narrator is using rhyme.
The narrator creates a suspenseful mood because the reader doesn’t know what will happen next. What kinds of things is the reader unsure of?
The reader knows everything.
The reader is not sure if Sal will fix the truck, because he already broke one; the reader doesn't know if the truck is "The Big One".
The reader is not sure if Sal will catch the fish because he already lost one; the reader doesn’t know if the fish is “the Big One".
Does Sal keep the Big One?
No he doesn't keep it.
Yes he kept it and sold it.
He kept it, and ate it.
How does catching the big one, inspire Sal to write?
The fish inspires him to write because he’ll need more than a photograph to tell the whole story of how he caught it.
The fish inspires him to write because he loves fish.
The fish inspires him to write because the fish will fix his truck.
What does outstretched mean?
Very easily broken.
A comparison made with the words like or as.
Providing a picture in words.
Stretched out or extended.
What does the word brittle mean?
Brittle is another word for leaf
Brittle is another word for old.
Very easily broken
Very hard to break.
What does the word descriptive mean?
Descriptive means to provide a picture in words.
Descriptive means to provide words with words.
Descriptive means to talk a lot.
Descriptive means what it means.
What does the word creative mean?
Having the power to do nothing different.
Having the power to copy someone else's work.
Having the power to do something in a new way.
