Name ____________________________ Date _______________________
Authors often use figurative language to help paint a picture in the reader’s mind. They do this by comparing something from the story to an object or experience that most people can relate to (common background knowledge). The following simile is an example from the story to create a picture in the reader’s mind by connecting a new thing to you background knowledge.
Cassie frowned at me. I pulled her hand and we raced outside, out of the quiet of the barn into the wind, Cassie’s hair flying out behind her like corn silk.
Caleb’s Story – page 14
- Based on what you understand about corn silk, illustrate what you visualize this scene looks like in the box below.
At the end of chapter two, Caleb wrote the following entry in his journal:
At last something has happened here. Not just snow and wind and chores. A strange man has come to the farm. Cassie found him first.
He is not imaginary.
But he is mysterious.
Caleb’s Story – page 21
- Explain why Caleb describes the man as “not imaginary…but mysterious.”
