Contrasting the everyday and the unknown settings in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz' | English

Starter quiz

What is 'the everyday'?
- something unknown and unfamiliar
- something familiar and known ✓
- something new and exciting
What is 'the unknown'?
- somewhere familiar
- somewhere not understood ✓
- somewhere safe
- somewhere not safe
Which of the following might we use to describe 'the everyday'?
- predictable ✓
- chaotic
- familiar ✓
- not safe
Which of the following do we typically associate with the colour grey?
- vitality
- dull ✓
- lifeless ✓
- vibrancy
A simile is...
- a comparison where something is something else
- a comparison where something is like something else ✓
- where non-human things are given human emotions
A contrast is...
- similarities between two or more things
- differences between two or more things ✓
- the repetition of two or more things

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', Dorothy's 'everyday' is...
- Oz
- Kansas ✓
- Canada
In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', which colour is repeatedly associated with Kansas?
- "red"
- "blue"
- "gray" ✓
- "yellow"
A semantic field is...
- giving human emotions to non-human things
- saying something is like something else
- a group of words with a similar meaning ✓
To present something means...
- to provide evidence for something.
- to show something or make it known. ✓
- to express something without saying it explicitly.
In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', the sun in Kansas is described as...
- comforting
- warming
- blistering ✓
- summery
In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', the use of the simile to describe Oz suggests...
- that Oz is easy to comprehend
- that Oz is something extraordinary ✓
- that Oz is somewhere dangerous

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Baum describes the everyday setting of Kansas as dull and predictable.
Baum describes the unknown setting of Oz as wondrous and beautiful.
The contrasting use of colour in the descriptions depicts Kansas as a lifeless place and Oz as one of vitality.

That the unknown is always scary.

While we typically think of the unknown as something scary and overwhelming, it can also be something exciting and refreshing.

Everyday - encountered or used routinely or typically: ordinary
Semantic field - a group of words or expressions that are related in meaning
Unknown - a place, situation, or thing that is not known about or understood
Contrast - to compare two people or things in order to show the differences between them
Present - to give, show, provide, or make known