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Let's review the Literary Terms we learned today.

Narrative Poetry

Narrative poetry is a poem that tells a story. Just like a short story or a fairy tale, it has characters, a setting, and a plot. Instead of using paragraphs and chapters, it tells the story through lines and stanzas with rhythm and sometimes rhyme.

Examples from the Poem:

• “Dorothy Gale was aptly named, her arrival by storm is her claim to fame.”
  → This line introduces the main character and how she arrived in Oz.
• “To the Emerald City they said to roam, and follow a road of yellow brick.”
  → This gives us part of the plot, her journey on the yellow brick road.
  

Rhyme Scheme

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines in a poem. We label the rhymes with letters to show the pattern. The Dorothy poem uses the AABB rhyme scheme, which means the first two lines rhyme with each other, and the next two lines rhyme with each other.

Examples of AABB Rhyme Pattern:

• named / fame
• brick / tricks

Each pair of lines works together like a tiny rhyming couplet that helps the poem flow and feel fun to read.