Child.Lit.Chp8 Flashcards

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Classifications of fantasy?

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Low fantasy: is set in the primary world, but magical elements make it impossible
High fantasy: is set in a secondary world that uses elements that go against logic in our primary world.

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Modern Fantasy?

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Fantasy literature goes beyond the known imaginatively creates a new or transformed world.

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Science fiction?

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Is inspired by real developments in science and has conceived a version of reality different from the one we inhabit. Use science concepts to create extraordinary things and make them plausible.

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Difference between fantasy and science fiction?

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Fantasy is impossible while science fiction has a chance of happening in the dissent future.

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Catagories of high fantasy

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Myth fantasy; gothic fantasy; epic/heroic fantasy; and sword and sorcery fantasy.

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Five categories the plot of high fantasy.

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  1. ) Test of identity; endurance; and character
  2. ) task, imposed or undertaken voluntarily
  3. ) quest for marvelous objects or animals
  4. ) escapes from death, through disguise or substitution or with help
  5. ) journeys to other lands or worlds
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Criteria for modern fantasy?

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  • Is the story well written?
  • Is the theme compelling
  • Does the story allow readers to suspend disbelief
  • does the author maintain a sense of logic and order within the created world?
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Bruce coville

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Wrote: Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher and My teacher is an alien

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Jane yolen

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Wrote: touch magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the literature of Childhood
Commander toad and the voyage home

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1st science fiction book

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein

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1st science fiction published in U.S?

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Rocket Ship Galileo

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What term did Isaac Asimov coin?

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“Robotics”

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Categories of science fiction?

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Projecting scientific principles; utopian and dystopian societies; surviving environmental catastrophes; science fantasies.

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Criteria for science fiction?

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  • Is the story well written?
  • is it clear how the characters feel about their world and dilemmas
  • are there plot threads that the reader can follow in the invented world?
  • are there guidepost that serve as jumping off places from reality to imagination
  • does the author encourage the reader to continue reading through delight and fear.
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Peter Dickinson

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The changes trilogy

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Madeline L’engle

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A wrinkle in time

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William sleator

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Strange attractors

Interstellar pig