Poem Matching
He wrote Paul Revere’s Ride and The Village Blacksmith
JRR Tolkien wrote this piece that we read
What is “On Fairy Stories”?
List the 3 Hans Christian Anderson stories that we read
1. The Snow Queen
2. The Little Mermaid
3. The Nightingale
This is a sudden, joyous, and unexpected turn of events in a story that saves the protagonists from impending, absolute doom
What is eucatastrophe?
This is the definition of a tall tale
What is “a story that uses exaggerated language to talk about historical figures"
She wrote “I’m Nobody Who Are You?"
Who is Emily Dickenson?
CS Lewis Wrote this piece that we read
What is “On Three Ways of Writing for Children"
Wrote the Lady and the Lion
Brothers Brimm
This is a joyful, imaginative defiance of rigid, mundane logic, best used in fantasy or nursery rhymes to reveal truths
What is nonsense?
This is an example of _____:
A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett,
Built a bridge for the good River Bumpett.
A mistake in the plan
Left a gap in the span,
But he said, “Well, they'll just have to jump it.”
What is a limerick
He wrote “The Duel"
Who is Eugene Field?
He wrote “A Defense of Nonsense"
Who is GK Chesterton
______ Wrote the goose girl and rapunzel
who is Brothers Grimm
These are the three ways that stories come into being/spread
What are diffusion, inheritance, and invention
This is made to “make children happily alert to the present"
What is a nursery rhyme?
Christina Rosetti wrote these two poems
What is “What is Pink” and “Harm No Living Thing”?
He wrote “Awakening the Moral Imagination"
Who is Vigen Guroian
He wrote Little Red Riding Hood
Who is Charles Perrault?
This is a necessary antidote to the "sorrow and frustration" of the world, reminds us that good will ultimately triumph
What is consolation?
This is the definition of a fable
What is "a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral."
Edward Lear wrote these two poems
What is “The Quangle Wangle’s Hat” and “The Duel"
He wrote “Do You Believe in Fairies"
Who is JM Barrie
She wrote beauty and the beast
Madame de Villeneuve
This is the definition of recovery according to JRR Tolkien
the regaining of a clear, unclouded view of reality, allowing us to see familiar, everyday things (like trees, water, or iron) with renewed wonder and appreciation. It acts as a "cleaning of our windows" to cure the "triteness" and familiarity that dull our perception
These three elements are necessary for a Fairy Story
what is
1. Eucatastrophe
2. Magic
3. The Faerie