WorksheetsJames and the Giant Peach chapters 1-2 Comprehension Questions
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared using the words "like" or "as".
Sentence: The Ocean spread out below him like a magic carpet.
1. What two subjects are compared in the previous sentence?
A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared using the words "like" or "as".
Sentence: The ocean spread out below him like a magic carpet.
1. What does this simile tell you about the ocean?
The following simile compares which two objects?
1. Aunt Sponge was like a great white soggy overboiled cabbage
1. What is being compared in the following simile?
2. What does this information tell you about Aunt Spong?
Sentence: Aunt Sponge was like a great white soggy overboiled cabbage.
What fact about the death of the parents of James Henry Trotter suggests that this will be a fantasy story?
Why was James miserable in the story?
Journal Entry
As soon as he opened the___book, the pages crumbled in his hands
enormous
vast
ancient
shining
Our once busy home felt____once the children left.
desolate
ramshackle
nuisance
spectacles
I must have the frames on my ____ tightened because they keep slipping down on my nose.
radiant
vast
spectacles
enormous
