My first thought was to shed a shirt and stay cool, but when I passed through the far curtain of the _______ air, I knew I had better do just the opposite." (to keep heat from passing through)

In Mississippi Solo, the writer considered the river to be...

What two things are being compared in this simile? "Clouds rolled overhead in wild swirls like batter in a bowl.

"...enveloping me like a cocoon..."

As the snow fell, the forest wrapped itself in a white blanket and went to sleep.

"No sooner had I ducked into the trees than the sky split open with a loud crash and a _______ crakcle of lightning." (to break up)

"The river sloshed over the side."

"I could see the rainstorm forming off in the distance but swirling rapidly toward me like a dark gray _______. (mass of snow, ice, dirt falling quickly down the side of a mountain)

The tips of the trees bent way over...like fishing rods hooked on a big one."

How do you know this text is a memoir?

"slanted in a sharp edge"

"... the far curtain of the insulated air,..."

"Clouds rolled overhead in wild swirls like batter in a bowl."