Characters
Setting
Important Events
Personification, Metaphor, Simile
More Important Events
100
Who is Mae Tuck?
What is she is the mother of Miles and Jesse?
100
In which month does the story take place?
What is August?
100
What calmed Winnie's sobbing?
What is she ceased sobbing after Mae started her music box.
100
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year .....
What is Personification?
100
Where does Winnie decide to go?
What is She decides to go into the wood to see if she can discover what or who had made the music the night before.
200
Name the main character in the novel Tuck Everlasting.
Who is Winnie Foster?
200
Describe the appearance of the touch me not cottage
What is It was a square and solid cottage with a touch-me-not appearance surrounded by grass and enclosed by an iron fence four feet high which clearly said “Move on – we don’t want you here?”
200
What is how was Winnie's kidnapping different from her imagined one?
Her kidnappers appeared as alarmed as she was.
200
I'm about dry as dust.
What is Simile
200
When did the Tucks realize there was something peculiar about themselves and their horse?
What is They realized something wasn’t right when potentially harmful events didn’t affect them.
300
What does Winnie see there?
What is She sees a thin, sunburned wonderful boy drinking from a little spring near a huge tree.
300
Why did Winnie awaken disheartened the next morning?
What is she was annoyed at herself for being afraid to run away after all.
300
When did the Tucks realize there was something peculiar about themselves and their horse?
What is they realized something wasn’t right when potentially harmful events didn’t affect them.
300
The sun was just opening its own eye on the eastern horizon.
What is Personification?
300
Why did Miles' wife leave him and take the children?
What is she thought he had sold his soul to the devil because he wasn’t aging.
400
Where does Mae Tuck tell her husband she is going in the morning at dawn?
What is she is going to take the horse and ride down to the wood to meet her sons.
400
What is at the center of the wood?
A giant ash tree lies at the center of the wood with a bubbling spring among its roots with a pile of pebbles piled there to conceal it.
400
Who crept up in the bushes and heard the entire story?
What is the man in the yellow suit secretly overheard the entire Tuck story?
400
Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman wiht a round, sensible face and calm brown eyes.
What is a Metaphor?
400
3. Why did Winnie's grandmother become so excited when she heard music coming from the wood?
What is she thinks it is the elf music she had heard long ago. She had told Winnie stories about it.
500
Describe the stranger who appears at the Foster's gate at sunset of the same day.
What is He was tall and narrow with a long chin and beard. His suit was yellow and he had a black hat that dangled from one hand. His smile made him seem friendly?
500
What does Winnie want to do that the boy refuses to allow her to do?
She wants to take a drink from the little spring from which she saw the boy drinking.
500
Why did the Tucks decided that the source of their changelessness was the spring they had drunk from in the wood?
What is the cat had not drunk from it and had died ten years earlier.
500
And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a bottle on a pin.
What is Simile?
500
How do Jesse and Miles' opinions differ about their predicament?
What is Jesse thinks you might as well enjoy it as long as you can’t change it, while Miles is more serious about it.