GENRE
STUDY!!!
LEARNING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF
VARIOUS TYPES OF LITERATURE.
PERSONAL
NARRATIVE
• Written in first person (I, am, we, my, us, me, mine, our)
•
Dialogue
• Story Telling
• Setting (includes people, place and time)
• Sequence (Chronological order-Time)
• Factual
POETRY
• Uses Figurative Language ex. Simile, metaphor,
hyperbole, personification
• Rhyme scheme (possibly)
• Stanzas, line breaks
• Imagery
EXPOSITORY
NONFICTION
(RESEARCH)
• Form a Research question (something you want to learn
more about or seek an answer to)
• Identify appropriate sources: encyclopedias, nonfiction
texts (biographies, autobiographies other informative
materials), websites ending in .org .edu .gov
• Gather information from sources
• Sort/ sift through the information
• Process information to determine meaning
• Create a final product that presents your findings
including a work cited page
FICTION
• Stories from an author’s imagination usually with an
emphasis on character development.
• Realistic fiction- is a story based on the author’s
imagination that could probably happen in real life.
• Historical fiction are fictions based in historical events or
with historical characters.
• Science fiction- fictional stories with scientific information
within.
• Fantasy-fiction that is usually characterized by use of
magical places, characters or items.
LITERARY ANALYSIS
• With literary analysis, the focus is not on offering your
opinion about the work; rather, the focus is to interpret
and analyze the text.
• Direct quotes
• Indirect quotes
• Paraphrasing
• Character analysis
• Theme analysis
• Author analysis
• Piece interpretation
ANTHOLOGY
• Collection of works that are related
• Collections written by the same author
• Collection organized by theme
• Collection organized by genre
• Collection organized by time period
EXPOSITORY
NONFICTION
(PERSUASIVE)
To present an argument or point of view, to influence
• begins with a position statement
• supported by evidence and examples
• attempts to persuade by using logic
• and appealing to the reader’s emotions
• or sense of moral justice
• may include research data
• may compare or contrast
RHETORICAL
ANALYSIS
Analyzing how something is being said (rhetorical analysis).
Looking not solely for what the piece is about; we are
discovering how it is about what it is about.
• Nine possible rhetorical forms in the text: example,
definition, comparison-contrast, classification, process
analysis, description, narrative, cause-and-effect,
assertion/justification.
• These are broad forms that the speaker or writer can take
to shape the message. Writers decide to hang their
message upon one or more of these forms.
• The first step toward rhetorical analysis is to identify the
forms that the writer has chosen.