Genre
Children's literature
Setting and Context
Some fictional and some real
Narrator and Point of View
The narrator is a young girl, probably of a similar age to the reader.
Tone and Mood
The tone of the story is humorous and entertaining.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is the little girl, and the antagonists are the creatures who fight all night.
Major Conflict
The conflict is learning to read and understand rhyme.
Climax
The climax is when we find out what the little brother and the dad read.
Foreshadowing
The title foreshadows that this story will be about rhyming.
Understatement
The things playing on the wall understate how thin the wall is.
Allusions
N/A
Imagery
Seuss uses bright imagery in this book to convey his whimsical creatures.
Paradox
The mouse carries a house.
Parallelism
The girl compares herself to her brother and her dad.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
Many different kinds of creatures are personified in this story.
