Child.Lit.Chp8

Question 0

Classifications of fantasy?

Answer 0

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.

Question 1

Modern Fantasy?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Science fiction?

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Difference between fantasy and science fiction?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Catagories of high fantasy

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Five categories the plot of high fantasy.

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Criteria for modern fantasy?

Answer 6

• 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?

Question 7

Bruce coville

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Jane yolen

Answer 8

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

Question 9

1st science fiction book

Answer 9

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein

Question 10

1st science fiction published in U.S?

Answer 10

Rocket Ship Galileo

Question 11

What term did Isaac Asimov coin?

Answer 11

“Robotics”

Question 12

Categories of science fiction?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Criteria for science fiction?

Answer 13

• 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.

Question 14

Peter Dickinson

Answer 14

The changes trilogy

Question 15

Madeline L’engle

Answer 15

A wrinkle in time

Question 16

William sleator

Answer 16

Strange attractors

Interstellar pig