class notes 1

Question 1

who was the Poet Laureate of Childhood

Answer 1

Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 2

who wrote a Childs garden of verses

Answer 2

Stevenson

Question 3

who was Stevenson influenced by

Answer 3

Kate Grenaway

Question 4

Contemporary History

Answer 4

turning point in childrens poetry
celebration of imaginative play and childish voices
noteable for its understanding of what children are really like

Question 5

one of the 1st authors to celebrate the child’s voice

Answer 5

Stevenson

Question 6

personification

Answer 6

giving human characteristics to nonliving things

Question 7

explain personification in one of Stevenson’s poems
why does he use personification
what benefit does it give?

Answer 7

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Question 8

what are the two types of comparisons

Answer 8

simile and metaphor

Question 9

what were the Brothers Grimm

Answer 9

scholars

Question 10

what else did the Brothers Grimm write

Answer 10

A German Dictionary

Question 11

what was the Brothers Grimm desire

Answer 11

to soften the stories and incorporate Christian morality into them

Question 12

what is the stabilizer of language

Answer 12

the written word

Question 13

What did Hans Christian Andersen write

Answer 13

fairy tales told for children in 1835

Question 14

end of 1800’s

Answer 14

Fairy Tales reinvented

shift from fantasy for entertainment for the sake of questioning the world

Question 15

who was George McDonald

Answer 15

a Scottish minister who wrote the Light Princess

Question 16

What did Lewis Carrol write

Answer 16

Alice in Wonderland

questioned public education

Question 17

L Frank Baum

Answer 17

wrote the wizard of Oz

Question 18

Oz stories are considered to be

Answer 18

social commentaries

Question 19

20th century

Answer 19

classic tales
reinvented tales
mass media presentation of tales