Flashcards in Child lit. Ch.2 Deck (42)
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Elements of literary works
Genre, setting, characterization, plot, theme, stance of implied reader, P.O.V, authors style.
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Genre
The rules of a specific type of work that let a reader know what to expect and how to evaluate what happens.
-if genre is switched reader may feel mislead
-May be a mix of two but has to remain on that line of both
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Genres of child literature
Folktales, realistic fiction, fantasy, poetry, historical fiction, biography, informational books
(Not all in neat divisions some can be a mixture of two)
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Picture books
Are more a kind of format
Because they can be any type of genre
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Folktales
Works by anonymous authors that were passed on orally from generation to generation
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Realistic fiction
Fictional stories that might have happened. In realistic fiction, events are plausible, and settings are usually drawn from actual geography.
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Fantasy
Works if otherworldly or supernatural elements
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Poetry
Work in verse
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Subtype of Folktales
Fairy tale: tales in which magic is prominent.
Legends: larger-than-life tales of famous people
Fables: stories with a moral
Epics: long rhymed works that relate a hero's exploits
Myths: ancient stories about the gods
Pour quoi stories: lighter stories than myths that explain, often delightfully about the reasons for things
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Subtype of realistic fiction
Adventure stories: works that tell of a character struggles against nature or other people.
Humorous stories: works that are funny.
Relationship stories: (or other problems): works that focus on relations between people or a character's struggles with her own self-doubts.
Historical fiction: works with realistic characters and plots set in a historical time and place
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Subtype of Fantasy
High fantasy: works that create a parallel universe alongside the real world.
Low fantasy: works in which a magical element intrudes into life in the real world, and makes possible a series of events which otherwise stay very true to life.
Science fiction: works that create a fictionalized setting or set of events based on some projection of scientific knowledge
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Subtype of poetry
Narrative poems: works that tell a story in verse
Lyric or expressive poems: verses that convey observations or express feelings
Humorous poems: joke, funny riddles, or humorous stories in verse.
Novels in verse: book-length poems that tell a story
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Setting
Is a time and place in which the events of a story occurred
How much a setting is described depends on the genre
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Setting for realistic fiction
The immediate social group (that is, the people immediately surrounding the character)
The wider social setting (that is, the characters' nationality, race, and social class)
The geography (including what kind of activities typically happen there, as well as what has happened there in the past and how people feel about it)
The historical period (the current decade or earlier ones.)
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Setting for Folktales
In no particular time "once upon a time" for example
Don't have a real geography have associations ex in European tales
Home is where normal life is lived and forest is where one may be tested by sinister forces.
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Characterization
The art of creating people out of words on the page
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Dimensions of characterization
Actions: what characters do
Relations: who the character's "people are; how the character relates to them
Sense of themselves: how the characters describe themselves
Roles character play: some characters are heroes (protagonist), some are rivals (antagonist), others are helps, others are beneficiaries of the heroes's actions
Authors description: what the author says about them
Author's description:
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Round characters
Are characters in a story whom we really get to know, along with their past, their relationships, their motives, their inner thoughts, and changes they go through
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Flat characters
A character that does not go through any change or motives are not fully explained. They act in the same manner predictably. No significant change.
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Plot
Is a meaningful ordering of events with their consequences, a "who did what and why." It helps move the reader though the text before reaching insight.
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What is conflict? And the 4 kinds of conflicts
Are struggles or obstacles a character goes through.
1.)between characters
2.)conflict within (internal conflict)
3.)conflict with environment
4.)conflict with society
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Plot structures
Introduction / exposition
Complication
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Dénouement / resolution
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Exposition / introduction
Information necessary to understand the story
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Complication
Some conflict is introduced and the characters attempt to resolve it
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Rising action
Follows complication, as the characters go through situations in which they find themselves and pursue their goal
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Climax
The point of maximum tension, and when the character resolves the conflict, and things seem to be most at stake
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Falling action
Rapid series of events after the climax.
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Dénouement / resolution
The problem is solved and the conflict is resolved
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Initiation story
A type of plot in which a young character is given some challenge to get through; having successfully met the challenge, she or he is recognized as being more mature or more worthy
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