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novels depict distant worlds and futuristic
technologies that whirl readers far away from the here and now and yet provoke
contemplation of contemporary issues. Imaginative, thoughtful, and other-worldly,
this robust category is made even more popular by the Star Wars and Star Trek
series. Leading science fiction and fantasy writers include Ray Bradbury, Arthur
Clarke, Isaac Asimov, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as the current, multi-
best-selling, young adult author J.K. Rowling.
Science fiction
and thrillers are tense, exciting, often sensational works
with ingenious plotting, swift action, and continuous suspense. In this genre, a
writer’sobjective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, and a
constant sense of impending doom that propels the reader forward. Unlike
mysteries, thrillers are dominated by action in which physical threat is a constant
companion, and a hero (James Bond, for example) is pitted against a nefarious
villain.
Suspense
these novels about life on America’s post-Civil
War western frontier usually involve conflicts between cowboys and outlaws,
cowboys and Native Americans, or Easterners and Westerners. While this category
still has a mass-market audience and a thriving regional market, it’s not the
popular genre it was 25 years ago.
Western
This genre includes any type of novel with a protagonist in the 12 to 16 age
range that speaks to the concerns of teenagers. Currently, J.K. Rowling and her
amazing Harry Potter (Scholastic Press) books are dominating the field. Rowling’s
accomplishment — a truly universal story, brimming with magic and fantasy as
well as likable characters that readers identify with — is an amazing feat.
Young adult
Reality-based stories
Believable story-line, sometimes portraying a harsher reality or degradation
of society
Current, modern setting
Contemporary literature
connected series of events told through words
(written or spoken), imagery (still and moving), body language, performance,
music, or any other form of communication. You can tell a story about anything,
and the events described can be real or imaginary; covering both fiction and
nonfiction; and leaving no topic, genre, or style untouched. There are stories about
all things and all times; past, present and future. Whenever you’re telling
somebody about a series of events, you are telling a story, no matter what the
subject nor when they occurred. As such, stories are of great value to human
culture, and are some of the oldest, most important parts of life.
Aside from being a part of every single type of literature, stori
Story
is a type of literature based on the interplay of words and rhythm. It
often employs rhyme and meter (a set of rules governing the number and
arrangement of syllables in each line). In poetry, words are strung together to form
sounds, images, and ideas that might be too complex or abstract to describe
directly.
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Poetry
the words that form a single line of poetry.
Poetic line
section of a poem named for the number of lines it contains.
Stanza
when there is no written or natural pause at the end of a poetic
line, so that the word-flow carries over to the next line.
Enjambment
way words and poetic lines are placed on the page of a poem.
Placement
a line in traditional poetry that is written in meter.
Verse
– the basic beat in a line of a poem.
Example: “Whose woods these are, I think I know” is the first line from “Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost. Notice that the accented words
(underlined) give the line a distinctive bea
Rhythm
pattern of stressed and unstressed (accented and unaccented)
syllables (known as a foot) in a line of poetry.
Example: In an iambic pentameter, the pattern is five iambic (unaccented +
accented) feet in each line (see Verse).
Meter
same or similar sounds at the end of words that finish different
lines.
Example: The following are the first two rhyming lines from “The King of Cats
Sends a Postcard to His Wife” by Nancy Willard: Keep your whiskers crisp and
clean, Do not let the mice grow lean,
End Rhyme
same or similar sounds at the end of words within a line.
Example: A line showing internal rhyme (underlined) from “The Rabbit” by
Elizabeth Maddox Roberts: When they said the time to hide was mine,
Internal Rhyme
pattern of rhyme in a poem.
Example: A quatrain – a stanza of four lines in which the second and fourth-lines
rhyme – has the following rhyme scheme: abcb (see Quatrain).
Rhyme scheme
the repetition of vowel sounds within words in a line. Example: A
line showing assonance (underlined) from “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” by Clement
Clarke Moore: The children were nestled all snug in their beds
Assonance
the repetition of consonant sounds within words in a line.
Example: A line showing consonance (underlined) from “A Visit from Saint
Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore: Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
Consonance
