How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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The part of a poem that is a group of lines, like a paragraph in a story, is called a stanza. How many stanzas are in the poem below?

Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small, Was beginning to wake up! They hadn't touched them at all! Dumbfounded, the Grinch stood perplexing and puzzling: "How could it be so? It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes, or bags!"

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Read this part from the poem in How the Grinch Stole Christmas:

Then he slunk to the icebox. He took the Whos' feast! He took the roast beast, and the pudding and the rare roast beast!

Which two words at the end of the lines rhyme with each other? ______ and ______

Read this line from the book: He slithered and sneaked, and he did all the sneaky things.

This sentence uses alliteration because many words begin with the same sound.

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 Read these lines from the story:

(A) Then he loaded the sleigh with the presents and things! (B) And with a wild whoop and a snap of the whip, (C) He swung around fast, and he started for home! (D) Down the mountain he went! Where the Who Pudding was missing!

What is the rhyme scheme of these lines?

• A and B

• B and C

• C and D

• All are correct

 Why do poets use repetition (repeating the same words or phrases) in a poem, like how Dr. Seuss repeats "The Grinch hated Christmas!" at the beginning of the book?

 Read this part from the poem in How the Grinch Stole Christmas:

He popped off the cap, and he crammed them in a sack. The last thing he took was the log for the fire!

Which sound device is used when the poet repeats the "k" sound at the end of "popped" and "crammed" and "sack"?

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• None of the above