Passage Picker Example

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

1. Figurative Language Passage:
    Page number: 11
    Lines: 1-4
    "This is Ki-pat,
        who watched his herd
    As he stood on one leg,
        like the big stork bird;"
    This passage contains a simile, which adds description to the passage, and gives the reader a visual image of what Ki-pat looks like.

2. Descriptive Passage:
    Page number: 11
    Lines: 5-8
    "Ki-pat, whose cows
        were so hungry and dry,
    They mooed for the rain
        to fall from the sky;"
    This passage is descriptive in that it shows the reader how badly the animals need for the rain to fall from the sky.

3. Descriptive Passage:
    Page number: 20
    Lines: 1-4
    "This was the shot
        that pierced the cloud
    And loosened the rain
        with thunder LOUD!"
    I chose this passage because it describes when the rain finally gets released from the cloud, and the plain starts to get the rain that it has been needing.

4. On Your Own Passage:
    Page Number: 15
    Lines: 1-8
    " This is the arrow
        Ki-pat put together,
    With a slender stick
        and an eagle feather;
    From the eagle who happened
        to drop a feather,
    A feather that helped
        to change the weather."
    I chose this passage because it begins to tell how Ki-pat is going to get it to rain on the plain. It shows his creativity in putting the arrow together with the things that he has around him.