Child lit. Ch.2

Question 0

Genre

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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

Question 1

Elements of literary works

Answer 1

Genre, setting, characterization, plot, theme, stance of implied reader, P.O.V, authors style.

Question 2

Genres of child literature

Answer 2

Folktales, realistic fiction, fantasy, poetry, historical fiction, biography, informational books
(Not all in neat divisions some can be a mixture of two)

Question 3

Picture books

Answer 3

Are more a kind of format

Because they can be any type of genre

Question 4

Folktales

Answer 4

Works by anonymous authors that were passed on orally from generation to generation

Question 5

Realistic fiction

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Fictional stories that might have happened. In realistic fiction, events are plausible, and settings are usually drawn from actual geography.

Question 6

Fantasy

Answer 6

Works if otherworldly or supernatural elements

Question 7

Poetry

Answer 7

Work in verse

Question 8

Subtype of Folktales

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Subtype of realistic fiction

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Subtype of Fantasy

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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

Question 11

Subtype of poetry

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Setting

Answer 12

Is a time and place in which the events of a story occurred

How much a setting is described depends on the genre

Question 13

Setting for realistic fiction

Answer 13

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.)

Question 14

Setting for Folktales

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Characterization

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The art of creating people out of words on the page

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Dimensions of characterization

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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:

Question 17

Round characters

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Flat characters

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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.

Question 19

Plot

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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.

Question 20

What is conflict? And the 4 kinds of conflicts

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Are struggles or obstacles a character goes through.

1. )between characters
2. )conflict within (internal conflict)
3. )conflict with environment
4. )conflict with society

Question 21

Plot structures

Answer 21

Introduction / exposition

Complication

Rising action

Climax

Falling action

Dénouement / resolution

Question 22

Exposition / introduction

Answer 22

Information necessary to understand the story

Question 23

Complication

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Some conflict is introduced and the characters attempt to resolve it

Question 24

Rising action

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Follows complication, as the characters go through situations in which they find themselves and pursue their goal

Question 25

Climax

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The point of maximum tension, and when the character resolves the conflict, and things seem to be most at stake

Question 26

Falling action

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Rapid series of events after the climax.

Question 27

Dénouement / resolution

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The problem is solved and the conflict is resolved

Question 28

Initiation story

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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

Question 29

The journey

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A type of plot in which the character goes off on a voyage meeting challenges along the way growing in awareness of other people, circumstances that surround them, and themselves.

Question 30

Episodes

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Patterns of episodes within larger plots

Question 31

Theme

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is an issue or a lesson that a story brings to a reader's consciousness Sometimes represented by symbols or image in a story

Question 32

Explicit theme and implicit theme

Answer 32

An idea that is strongly stated

Question 33

The implied reader

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Is the ideal interpreter of a work, imagine by an the author. When they construct a work they constantly keep this reader in mind to arrange the story in a way that evokes them

Question 34

3 ways of the reader can take the stance of the implied reader

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1. ) identifying with the characters 2. ) taking a moral perspective on the story 3. ) filling the gaps to make the story "work."

Question 35

Identifying with characters

Answer 35

The reader is putting themselves in the characters shoes and feeling everything they feel.

Question 36

Moral stance

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Will the readers go with the decisions made by the characters or will they disagree? Take on the morals or not. Will influence how you read the text

Question 37

P.O.V

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The perspective from which the events in a story are perceived ad narrated 1st person 3rd person

Question 38

1st person P.O.V

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This perspective is intimate and has the reader feeling what the character feels but limits them to the characters perspective

Question 39

3rd person P.OV.

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2 types 3rd limited and 3rd omniscient / unlimited 3rd limited is in "he, she, etc" format but is limited to the characters P.O.V 3rd omniscient is a narrator who seems to know more than the characters

Question 40

Style

Answer 40

Not what's said but how it's said

Question 41

Images

Answer 41

Is the art of making the reader experience details as if through their own five senses