Q What is the effect of this language?
1. Answer:
It conveys a tone of fantasy.
Explanation
For Momaday words can inspire emotions, they can create magic, and they are always powerful tools for understanding and shaping reality.
Q. What is the effect of the figurative language in this sentence?
2. Answer
It shows how Aho kept alive the memory of her people’s history.
Explanation
Aho passed down her memories of the Kiowas to Momaday, and, as such, much of Momaday’s knowledge of the tribe comes from her.
Q. What is the effect of the first-person point of view in this excerpt?
3. Answer
Readers get insight into the author’s personal view of the dogs of Kiowa society.
Explanation
It is noticed with the expresion "they should have been sad, I think, to see them go"
Q. What is the central thread that connects the three parts of Section VIII in The Way to Rainy Mountain?
4. Answer:
Kiowa people always show great respect for the dead.
Explanation
In direct contrast to the last segment, this one has a wholeness to it that pulls together a number of textual elements. The author references his dead grandmother (Aho), calls her by name immediately after giving the information that historically Kiowas did not call dead people by name.
Q. How does the author use the personal reflection passage to address the topic?
5. Answer:
It gives a personal account of the effect the Tai-me has on the author.
Explanation
Here, as in some earlier segments, the fluidity of the three voices is apparent. The legend of the acquisition of Tai-me is told in the ancestral voice; the object is described in the historical voice. The final voice, the personal, tells of the author's sole interaction with the figure. In all three, Tai-me is at the center. This is reflected in the book's structure: this segment occurs near the middle of the book.
Q. Which statement explains the author's meaning in this excerpt?
6. Answer:
Many different stories are part of the overall Kiowa story.
Explanation
The Way to Rainy Mountain is a history of the Kiowa people, but it’s a nontraditional history; it takes the kind of written “factual” history to which Euro-American culture is accustomed and blends it with tribal lore and personal recollection.
