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WorksheetsThe Canyon's Edge
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 21mins
"She sings the song she always sang when I was sick or scared." This is an example of which sound device?
Rhyme
Alliteration
Assonance
Rhyme
"[The mesquite beans] rattle like the snake." This is an example of which type of figurative language?
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Rhyme
"[The beast is] sneering, sniping, snapping his snarling mouth." What sound device is this?
Repetition
Alliteration
Assonance
Rhyme
"I feel as if I've walked a hundred miles." This is an example of which type of figurative language?
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
"Its thorny claws clasp and catch, tug and tear, rip and rend my long hair." This is an example of which type of figurative language?
Hyperbole
Personfication
Rhyme
Simile
The rope was "coiled in an uprooted [tree] like a bright red snake." This is what type of figurative language?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
"I'm just a small and powerless...single drop of water." What figurative language is this?
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
"I am spiraling...like the whirlpools I spied in the flood." This is which type of figurative language?
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
The flood tries to "reach up with slender, flowing fingers [to] take me, pry me, snatch me, from this wall."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
"The [flood]water...leaves like bathwater trickling down a hair-clogged drain."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
"What little [strength] I have left is as thin and frail as the monarch [butterfly's] wings." Identify the figurative language.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
When Nora is climbing up the canyon wall from the cave to the top, she realizes
that her father must have had a whistle on his backpack because she can hear his signal downriver
that her coping strategy of using the flour-filled balloon has strengthened her forearms for the climb
that she forgot the rope at the botton of the canyon and now has to climb back down to retrieve it
When Nora is out of the canyon, she has no protection from the (a)
When Nora says, "I hope the desert forgives...my mild disrespect," she is using (a) by describing the desert (which is not a person) doing something a person does, like forgiving others.
When Nora says, "It's a wonder I don't disintegrate into a puff of powder" on page 219, her hyberbole shows how
Hopeless she is
Lost she is
Thirsty she is
Scared she is
Nora is able to get some fluids at the cost of
eating dirt
getting thorns on her hands, lips and tongues
wasting precious time
breaking her fingernails
Which of the following does Nora NOT fantasize about as she is hiking in the desert in the middle of the day?
Diving into a swimming pool
Eating prickly pear popsicles with her parents
Making snow angels with Danielle
Why aren't Danielle and Nora friends anymore?
Because her dad won't let them hang out
Because Danielle feels guilty about her mom's death
Because Nora drove her away
Because they don't go to the same school anymore
Which of the following types of poems is NOT used in The Canyon's Edge?
Acrostic (where the letters down the page spell a word)
Haiku (three-lined poem with 5, 7, and 5 syllables)
Free verse (no rules or rhyme scheme)
Tanka (five-lined poem with a haiku and two lines of 7 syllables)
Put the following events in the order in which they occur in the story.
Nora and her father rappel into the canyon
Nora tells her dad she wants to go back to school
A flash flood washes away her dad and her supplies
Nora is stung by a scorpion in a cave
Nora climbs out of the canyon and looks for her dad
