True Stories About Camping in the Rain Task 10: Comprehend Literary Nonfiction
Both John Muir and Jerome K. Jerome describe their experiences camping in nature. Muir describes a mostly
positive experience with the weather whereas Jerome describes a mostly negative experience with the
weather. The writings are "literary nonfiction," also known as true stories.
1. Look in the two excerpts to find details that describe both pleasant and unpleasant experiences the men
had while they were camping. Write the details in your own words in the correct columns. Two details have
been provided for you.
Details About an unpleasant Experience
Details About a Pleasant Experience
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after the rainstorm.
Rainwater turned their dinner into soup.
afternoon I

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification