CREATE YOUR OWN TALL TALE Giant with little peopleRemember, the key to a tall tale is exaggeration. Make the characters & setting more extreme than they are. Stretch the limits of what is there and what you think can happen. Your first step is to choose a tall tale hero. Remember, the key is to exaggerate your hero's characteristics. Make him or her bigger or stronger or faster or smarter than anyone else you know! Let him or her step right out of your imagination.

You will need an adventure for your tall tale hero. Once again, the key is to exaggerate. The main event of a tall tale is not something that can happen in real life.

Highlight the story pattern below, copy and paste into your word processor. Use the story pattern to help in writing your own Tall Tale.

Read the excerpt from "annabel lee," by edgar allan poe. and this was the reason that, long ago, in this kingdom by the sea, a wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful annabel lee; so that her highborn kinsmen came and bore her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre in this kingdom by the sea. how does the rhythm of the excerpt support the theme of the poem? the rhythm changes on the phrase “a kingdom by the sea,” emphasizing poe’s distrust of a monarchy. the rhythm changes on the phrase “bore her away from me,” emphasizing poe’s desire to be reunited the rhythm changes on the words “chilling” and “sepulchre,” emphasizing poe’s complaint about unexpected death. the rhythm changes on the words “lee” and “me,” emphasizing poe’s fear that his bond with his love is fragile.

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Which statement best describes edwards’s views in "sinners in the hands of an angry god"?