Your Task: Closely read the attached excerpt from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Write a well-developed, text-based response of two to three paragraphs. In your response, identify a central idea in the text and analyze how the author uses one literary technique or literary element to develop a central idea. Do not simply summarize the text. Use strong and thoughtful textual evidence to support your analysis. Guidelines:

Identify a central idea or theme in the text.
Pick one literary element or literary technique used by the author. Analyze how the author uses this strategy to develop this central idea or theme. Examples of strategies include: characterization, conflict, denotation/connotation, metaphor, simile, irony, language use, point-of-view, setting, structure, symbolism, theme, tone, etc.
Use textual evidence with direct quotes and examples from text to support your analysis (by line number).
Organize your ideas
Maintain a formal style of writing
Follow the conventions of standard written English

the: determiner

storm: noun

remains: verb

a: determiner

threat: noun

to: preposition

the: determiner

coastal: adjective

village: noun

i’m writing a memoir and i’ve been given the great suggestion of placing a ‘sub-narrative’ within some of the chapters – sort of, what was going on with me in the grand scheme of things.

i was wondering how to format this so that it is very obvious we are stepping out the of story.

firstly is a change in font from serif to sans workable? i also use dashes for a scene change. was thinking of using a different scene-changer too.

here’s a (shortened) example:

university – or what’s known as ‘uni’ in australia – were some of the best days of my life. where else do you get to potter around in a great location, have very little responsibility, learn lots of things, do lots of things and walk out four years later with a bonus – a degree!

with my university years i had immersed myself into community of intelligent ambitious people. generally everyone had a confidence about themselves. they knew where they were going in life and weren’t threatened by others.

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