The People Could Fly

Which element makes this story a folk tale?

It has characters with supernatural abilities

What might happen if you were to snag your pants on a nail.

The nails would rip a hole into your pants

What did the ones who could not fly do in the end?

They told the story to their children who eventually were free

What causes Sarah, the young man slave, and the others to fly away

Toby says the magic words from Africa

When did some of the people first have the ability to fly?

When they were free in Africa

Which metaphor is used to describe the Master of the plantation?

a hard lump of clay

Why did the people who could fly shed their wings and stop flying?

because they could not take their wings on the slave ships

What type of figurative language is in the phrase "She flew like an eagle"?

simile

To croon means to

sing softly

How would a person who shuffles be moving?

slowly