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Vignettes of life,
compact novelettes,
stories of characters,
or stories of incident?
What is SHORT
STORY?
Haiku, limerick,
ballads and nursery
rhymes
What is POETRY?
These stories invite
readers to be a part of
the lives of someone
from another era.
What is HISTORICAL
FICTION?
Relates a story about
oneself that focuses on
important dates and
events throughout ones
life.
What is a
AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
Body of expressive culture, including
tales, music, dance, legends, oral
history, proverbs, jokes, popular
beliefs, customs within a particular
population comprising the traditions
(including oral traditions) of that
group.
What is FOLKLORE?
Presents a world that
never was and never
could be.
What is FANTASY?
Robots, spaceships,
futuristic technological
settings and its impact on
our lives.
What is SCIENCE
FICTION?
Will Eisner coined the term
with his heavily illustrated
work, A Contract With God.
What is GRAPHIC
NOVELS?
Japanese word that
means animation.
What is ANIME?
Stories about issues
affecting children’s
lives and how they
come to terms with
them.
What is
REALISTIC or
CONTEMPORARY
FICTION?
Japanese word that
means comics.
What is MANGA?
Authors Jackson,
O’Henry, Faulkner,
Hemmingway,
O’Conner wrote in this
form?
What is SHORT
STORY?
Dragon Ball Z,
Pokemon, Venus Wars,
Yu-Gi-Oh, and Neon
Genesis are examples.
What is ANIME?
X-Men, Adventures of
Joe Boy and Contract
with God are some
examples.
What are GRAPHIC
NOVELS ?
Charlottes Web,
Pinocchio, the
Borrowers and Mary
Poppins are examples.
What is FANTASY?
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughter
Bubba, the Cowboy Prince
& Rough Faced Girl
are variations of this.
What are
CINDERELLA
STORIES?
Bud, Not Buddy, Number
the Stars, & Animal
Farm are examples.
What is
HISTORICAL
FICTION?
Name the genre of the following:
A street house, a neat house,
Be sure and wipe your feet house
Is not my kind of house at allLet’s go live in a tree house.
(author Vickie Driskell)
What is POETRY?
Cinderella, Robin Hood,
Stone Soup & Little Red
Ridding Hood
are examples of this genre.
What is FOLKLORE?
This poem describes what genre:
My life is great,
My life is grand,
I’ll write a book,
Oh, just look!
It’s all about me,
Not about you.
It’s my very own.
(author Vickie Driskell)
What is an
AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
"A sea of troubles"
AND
"All the world's a stage."
(Shakespeare)
What is a Metaphor?
I could sleep for a year
AND
This book weighs a ton.
What is Hyperbole?
The lead character, Ellen, is a 14-year old girl who sees school
as something to do, not something to enjoy. She comes from a
well-off uptown New York City family where the mother is a
busy interior designer and her father is always away on
business but travels more than he cares to travel. Ellen has an
older brother, Link, who is very good friends with James. The
three of them are very close friends. Ellen has a crush on
James and is curious if James and Link are involved in a
homosexual relationship. She is torn between her admiration
of Link and her admiration of James, and begins a quest to
learn more about the culture of the gay community in an effort
to understand herself, her brother, and his friend. This builds
to a frenzied pace as Link and James prepare to depart the
safety of high school and enter the collegiate world while she
faces remaining at home without her two buddies.
My Heart Beat by Garret Weyr
What is Internal/External
Conflict?
A reciprocal
conversation
between two or
more persons.
What is DIALOGUE?
The “Who Was?” Series: Who
Was Leonardo Da Vinci?
Who Was Amelia Earhart?
Who Was Ronald Reagan?
Who Was Louis Armstrong?
Is an example of this genre.
What is
INFORMATIONAL?
Make your wager
Literary device in which an
author drops subtle hints about
plot developments to come later
in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?