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