Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
Third person narrator / speaker, speaking from his own point of view.
Form and Meter
Iambic tetrameter, particularly in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
Metaphors and Similes
"The huntsman's heart began to flutter
It melted like a pound of butter"
This simile, from the poem "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", explains that upon seeing Snow White the hunstsman was instantly in love and fell very quickly; his heart was at once as melted and as liquid as butter is after it has melted.
Alliteration and Assonance
No examples
Irony
In the original fairy tales the little girls in the story are the protagonists and are at the mercy of the other characters around them. In the poems, they are feisty and far tougher than any of the male characters they encounter. For example the Huntsman is sent to kill Snow White but ends up falling instantly in love with her.
Genre
Children's Poetry
Setting
There are various settings in the poem; "The Three Little Pigs" and "Little Red Riding Hood" are set in the same woodland village location as the characters are all acquainted with each other.
Tone
The tone is jocular, and also satirical, but also vaguely violent.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonists of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" are the Bears; Goldilocks herself is the antagonist.
Major Conflict
There is conflict between the Queen and her step-daughter Snow White, after the magic mirror declares Snow White to be prettier than the Queen and officially the Fairest of them All.
Climax
Jack climbs up the beanstalk and nets himself the golden leaves, making him a very rich man.
Foreshadowing
The fact that Little Red Riding Hood is known to be a sharp shooter foreshadows her shooting the Little Pig after she has done as he asked and shot the wolf trying to blow up his house.
Understatement
Little Red Riding Hood is said to be a sharp shooter but she is also rather a bloodthirsty and trigger happy one, the term sharp shooter understating her zeal for shooting things.
Allusions
The poems allude to the original fairy tales upon which they were based.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The Three Little Pigs is the way in which each individual pig is referred to .
Personification
The Magic Mirror is personified because it is allowed to use its own judgement about who is the fairest in the kingdom.
Hyperbole
The narrator's dislike of Goldilocks is hyperbolic as he really rails against her in a manner that is disproportionate to the wrongs that she has committed.
Onomatopoeia
N/A
