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Narrative poetry

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A story in verse, including a setting, identifiable characters, and a plot.

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Lyric poetry

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Expresses a single speaker’s emotional or intellectual response to a subject, mood, an emotion. Sometimes no speaker is specified.

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Epic

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A long narrative poem.

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Ballad stanza

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Used for narrative poetry, it typically relies on a four line stanza with the second and fourth lines rhyming. Usually contains 8 syllables per line.

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Haiku

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A short Japanese poem containing 17 syllables divided into three lines (5-7-5).

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Cinquain

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A poetic form developed by Adelaide Crapsey. Contains 5 short lines, and those 5 lines contain two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.

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Concrete poetry

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When the words of a poem are so arranged that they form a picture of the subject of the poem.

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Limerick

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A five line poem which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other, while the third and fourth rhyme with each other.

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Elegy

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A lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead or express a speaker’s melancholy thoughts.

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Free verse

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Adheres to no set of predetermined rules.

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Imagery

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Mental pictures conveyed through the descriptions and word choices of the poet.

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Direct images

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Images that engage or involve our senses. They may be visual, tactile, olfactory, auditory, kinesthetic, or gustatory.

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Indirect images

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Images that describe through comparison

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Simile

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A comparison using like or as

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Metaphor

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A comparison in which something is something else

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Personification

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Extending human qualities to an inanimate object, idea, or force of nature.

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration that adds emphasis without being literally true.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the sound at the beginning of the words

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Assonance

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The repetition of identical vowel sounds

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Consonance

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The repetition of consonant sounds within words

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes

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Animal fantasy

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Animals are inbued with human traits

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Toy Fantasy

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Talking toys generally major characters; fantasy of toys who wish to become real

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Eccentric and extraordinary characters

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Magical powers, nonsensical predicaments; connection to the tall tale. Encourage individuality in readers

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Enchanted journeys and imaginary lands

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Typically opens in the real world; principle characters enter realm by accident; may be a quest-journey

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Heroic quest fantasy

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Shares the heroic exploits of a hero or heroine engaged in a monumental struggle against a seemingly all powerful evil.

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Supernatural and time fantasy

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Ghost and which stories; mysterious and unexplained occurrences. Time travel.

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Science fiction fantasy

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Focuses on life in the future, either on earth or another planet. Wonders of technology.

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Fantasy

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The story of the impossible, a tale including events that contradict the laws of the natural world; a literary rather than oral tradition.

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Breakkkkkk

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Breakkkkkkk

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What color is associated with Kansas in Wizard of Oz?

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Gray

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When Dorothy lands in Oz, who accompanies the three munchkins to greet her?

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The witch of the north

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What color, according to the munchkin Boq, is associated with witches?

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White

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What are the Kalidah’s?

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Predators in the forest that chase Dorothy, scarecrow, and tinman.

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Why was the axe of the tinman enchanted?

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The witch enchanted it because his muchkin love’s mother wanted her to keep working.

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Who rescues the scarecrow from the river?

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Stork

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The scarecrow asks the field mice to each bring ____ to help get the lion out of the poppy field?

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String

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Describe one way other than the giant head the Wizard appears to Dorothy and gang?

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The lion sees fire

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Other than the winged monkeys, identify ONE of the ways that the wicked witch of the west tries to stop Dorothy and her friends from coming in the land of the west?

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Sends wolves to kill them Bees to sting them

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Why does Dorothy throw water at the witch?

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The witch takes one of her silver shoes, and it makes her upset.

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Where is the wizard originally from?

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Omaha, NE

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What is behind the wall Dorothy and friends encounter on their way to see Glinda?

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The China people

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How does the lion help the animals in the southern Forrest?

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Kills the giant spider that had been terrorizing them

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How is the farm and auntie Em different at the beginning and end of the book?

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The farm doesn’t seem as gray. Dorothy seems more appreciative of her home. Auntie Em is happier and more affectionate.

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Wizard of Oz attitude toward freedom

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Frees Winkies, flying monkeys

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What specific kind of fantasy is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?

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Enchanted journeys and imaginary lands

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In addition to Little Bear, what other first easy reader was published in 1957?

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The Cat in the Hat

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In “slick, click, clack” from Terrific Trains, what poetry applies to the repeated “ck” sound?

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Assonance

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