ALT Text in a white capsule shape on a yellow patterned background. Text reads: My Chada told stories. Some of them were true. To be fair, they were true, and his lies were the truths he wouldn’t speak. —Annie Wenstrup, “Sukdu’a”

ALT Three women singing into microphones with their backs to the camera in the Unlock the Music gallery at Planet Word.

ALT Text on a green background under a round photo of Frederick Douglass. Text reads: “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglass

ALT The Planet Word building at night. It is a historic red brick building with decorative windows, cupolas, and a mansard roof.

ALT Planet Word visitors sitting in front of microphones with glowing rainbow rings with three-dimensional words lit up in blue and yellow on Planet Word’s Word Wall in the background.

ALT A woman standing in Planet Word’s Library with her back to the camera. In front of her are tall bookshelves reaching up to the ceiling, which is mirrored to make the bookshelves look twice as tall, and tables with books on display.

ALT “Bohemian Rhapsody” — Queen I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me (Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro magnifico Mosaic rhyme — Rhyming a multi-syllable word with a few shorter words Internal rhyme — rhyme inside a line

ALT The Spoken World gallery at Planet Word. Museum visitors stand in front of tablets that are placed around the room, and the globe is activated with two large red letter Rs.

ALT Text in a pink capsule shape on a patterned background. “I cannot go to school today,” Said little Peggy Ann McKay. “I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry, I’m going blind in my right eye.” —Shel Silverstein, “Sick”

ALT A circular blue card hanging on a peg on a wall. Text on the card reads: One word I love the sound of is: “Alliteration” Here’s Why: “I love to say it — perfect pronunciation, I love to use the concept, fun to figure out a flurry of phonetic familiarities”

ALT The magic Library at Planet Word. There are books in shades of yellow and red going up to the ceiling, which is mirrored to make the bookshelves look twice as tall. In the center of the room are tables with books on display above the table surface.

ALT A tablet with Korean language ambassador Shiwon in front of the Spoken World globe at Planet Word, which is activated with an animation of two swords crossing on a pink explosive background.

ALT Text on a dark green background underneath a portrait of Mary Shelley. Text reads: “I busied myself to think of a story...One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. —Mary Shelley

ALT Two young women standing to the right of the Speaking Willow, a metal tree covered in ivy with bell-shaped speakers, at Planet Word. The woman to the right has her arm stretched upward to the bells.

ALT Text in a black capsule shape over a sepia photo of the March on Washington. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

ALT Text in a blue capsule shape on a patterned background. Text reads: “Hope” is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all — —Emily Dickinson, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”

ALT Text in a black capsule shape on a vintage photo of a women’s suffrage rally on the steps of the Virginia State Capitol. Text reads: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied… on account of sex.” —The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution

ALT A girl receiving a short story or poem from the Short Story Dispenser at Planet Word. The machine has three buttons and a backlit sign with instructions on top, and it dispenses stories and poems on a strip of paper.