Analysing and emulating Baum's use of unknown characters in 'The Wizard of Oz' | English

Starter quiz

What is a character?
- a real person
- a person in a novel ✓
- a friend
Someone unknown is ______.
- someone you're friendly with
- someone you are unfamiliar with ✓
- someone you dislike and don't want to be around
The organ associated with love is ______.
- the brain
- the heart ✓
- the lungs
- the eyes
To make something new or imaginative is to ______.
- copy
- create ✓
- dismantle
- imitate
Onomatopoeia is ______.
- giving human emotions to non-human things or objects
- a word that resembles the sound it describes ✓
- a comparison using like or as
- a word that has the same spelling but a different meaning
We generally associate light and light imagery with ______.
- positivity ✓
- negativity
- neutrality

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', we can infer that the Scarecrow wants ______ because he says his head is full of straw.
- a heart
- brains ✓
- courage
Match the character from L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz' with their request for Oz.
- The Lion
  
  ⇔
  
  courage ✓
- The Tin-Man
  
  ⇔
  
  a heart ✓
- Dorothy
  
  ⇔
  
  to return to Kansas ✓
Which of the following suggests a negative reaction?
- chuckled
- twinkled
- cowered ✓
A feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning is called a...
- 'connotation' ✓
To attain awareness or understanding of is to ...
- imply
- perceive ✓
- depict
To form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have is to ...
- 'infer' ✓

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Dorothy meets three companions on her way to Oz: the Scarecrow, the Tin-Man and the Lion.
Baum uses language to show the reader that Dorothy is not frightened by meeting any of these characters.
When creating your own unknown character, you need to consider how your language will make the reader perceive them.

That meeting someone unknown in a strange place will always be scary.

Instead of feeling scared, you might also feel excited or intrigued and you can use language to have this effect on the reader.

Infer - to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have
Connotations - a feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning
Character - a person in a novel, play, or film
Perceive - to attain awareness or understanding of
Create - to cause something to exist, or to make something new or imaginative