Share the items you brought from home by placing them on display in your classroom. Then join together with your classmates to read some of the stories and sing some of the songs. Invite other classes, or families to attend. Flashback in literature refers to a scene or a series of episodes that interrupts the normal sequence of events to describe an event or events that happened in the past. Skim through Chapter two to find a flashback.
Allusion is a reference in literature to a familiar person, place or event.
Do some research to find out about the Norse God Thor to whom Kirsti alluded when she named her cat. A cliffhanger in literature is a device borrowed from serialized silent films in which an episode or chapter ends at a moment of heightened tension and suspense to encourage the reader to continue on in the story. Tell about the cliff-hanger at the end of Chapter twelve. Personification in literature is a device in which an author grants human qualities or attributes to inanimate objects. The last section of the book is called the Afterward.