Chatper 2: Literature And Its Authors Flashcards
What is action and adventure fiction?
This means that there will be action based on the character’s natural instincts and reflexes, as well as problem solving. Can be violent or nonviolent.
What is alternate history fiction?
Look at a historical event and rewrites the story giving an alternate ending from what originally took place.
What is anthology fiction?
A collection of works. Can be short stories, epic poems, poetry or other similar collections of writing.
What is children’s fiction?
Books that are targeted towards children. Typically include pictures and other things that engage children.
What is classics fiction?
Stories that have stood the test of time. Including works like black beauty, little red riding hood, and beauty and the beast.
What is comic book fiction?
Composed of pictures that make up a story. Include conversations between characters and side notes about what is going on.
What is coming of age fiction?
Targeted towards tween readers. Have a theme of growing up.
What is crime fiction?
Have a criminal act and a police presence, and they involve some sort of criminal activity. Good guy, bad guy act.
What is drama fiction?
Refers to movies, tv shows, plays, novellas, and other live action literary works.
What is fable fiction?
Have a moral that is taught through the use of animals who take on human characteristics. For example, the tortoise and the hare.
What is fairy tale fiction?
Magical settings for children’s stories. Include fairies, pixies, trolls, talking animals and other mystical creatures.
What is fantasy fiction?
Features supernatural elements or the use of magic. Can take place in the real world beneath the surface of what we already see, or they can be otherworldly.
What are graphic novels?
Similar to comic books but have much longer, detailed stories that are told mainly through pictures and dialogue in the artwork.
What is historical fiction?
From history and puts a fictitious spin on things that happened in those individual’s lives - things that could have occurred during historical events.
What is horror fiction?
All about fear, scaring the reader and setting the scene for a gruesome story line.
What is mystery fiction?
Based on an occurrence and wanting to understand what happened or led to those events. Start off with the lead being missing or taken.
What is mythology fiction?
Based on myths that are created to explain things. Most common, Greek mythology. Greek gods and how they worked with people and impacted different aspects of life.
What is paranormal romance?
Refers to romance and romantic story lines that typically occur between a human and nonhuman, such as a werewolf or a vampire.
What is a picture book?
Containing few words and have brightly colored pictures to engage small children.
What is poetry?
Can include ballads, blank verse, rhyming poetry, free verse, elegies, narrative poetry, haiku, limericks, lyric poetry, odes, pastoral poetry, soliloquies, sonnets, villanelles.
What is realistic fiction?
Refer to events that seem like they could take place in our hometowns, neighborhoods and everyday lives.
What is romance?
Include stories that involve falling in love, finding love after heartbreak, trying to protect yourself from heartbreak or feelings of lust and love
What is satire?
Refers to performing arts in which fiction, nonfiction, vices, follies, shortcomings, ridicule, shaming and society Al norms are turned into humor of one form or another.
What is science fiction?
Refers to stories that use a scientific basis and add a fictitious spin.
What is suspense fiction?
Keeping its readers on the edge of their seats throughout the book. Have constant action, which generates suspense.
What are tall tales?
Short stories with an element of unbelievability. One tall tale is babe the blue ox. Another is Johnny Appleseed.
What is a thriller?
Includes fictional tales that involve dark, engrossing and suspenseful plots.
What is western fiction?
Refers to things like exploring the west, cowboys and Indians, pioneer days, panning for gold and other similar themes.
What is young adult literature?
Engaging towards tweens and teens in reading by choosing topics that are interesting to them in order to pique their interest in reading. A common theme is coming of age.
What are some key types of nonfiction literary works?
Art, architecture, autobiographies, biographies, business, crafts, cookbooks, diaries, dictionaries, economics, educational instruction, encyclopedias, essays, guides, hobbies, heath and fitness, home and garden, humor, journals, leisure, math, memoirs, narrative nonfiction, philosophy, prayer, new age, religion and spirituality, reviews, science, self-help, speeches, sports, textbooks, travel, true crime.
What should you consider before reading a text?
Skim the text first. Formulate questions you hope to answer along the way. Note words or phrases you do not know so you can find the definition. Identity important information like tone, pov, theme.
What should you consider while reading a text?
Find answers to the initial questions or questions you did not realize you wanted to ask. Identify the main idea and find supporting ideas in regard to the main idea.
What should you consider after reading a text?
Be able to summarize what you have read, identify key information and outlines how the story unfolded.
Who wrote the fiction story “The Color Purple”?
Alice Walker
Who wrote the drama story “Dutchman”?
Amiri Baraka
Who wrote the poetry “To my dear loving husband” “the author to her book” “the flesh and the spirit” “Verses upon the burning of our house” “in reference to her children” “23 June 1659”?
Anne Bradstreet
Who wrote the fiction stories “A child called it” “A man named Dave: a story of triumph and forgiveness” “The lost boy: a foster child’s search for true love of a family”?
Dave Pelzer
Who wrote the fiction stories “the cat in the hat” “oh the places you’ll go” “how the grinch stole Christmas”?
Dr. Seuss
Who wrote the poetry “the raven” “to Helen” “ulalume” “a dream within a dream” “the bells” “sonnet-to science” “eldorado” “the haunted palace” “the city in the sea” “Annabel Lee”?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who wrote the drama stories “the zoo story” “who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf” “a delicate balance” “seascape” “three tall women”?
Edward Albee
Who wrote the fiction “the westing game” “figgs & phantoms”?
Ellen Raskin
Who wrote the poetry “i taste a liquor never brewed” “success is counted in sweetest” “wild nights-wild nights” “i felt a funeral, in my brain” “hope’ is the thing with feathers” “a bird, came down the walk” “because I could not stop for death” “my life had stood - a loaded gun” “tell all the truth but tell it slant”?
Emily Dickinson
Who wrote the fiction stories “the sun also rises” “a farewell to arms” “for whom the bell tolls” “the old man and the sea”?
Ernest Hemingway
Who wrote the drama stories “long day’s journey into night” “beyond the horizon” “Anna Christie” “strange interlude” “ah wilderness” “the iceman cometh”?
Eugene O’Neill
Who wrote the nonfiction story “my bondage and my freedom”?
Frederick Douglass
Who wrote the fiction story “The great gatsby?”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote the fiction story “to kill a mockingbird”?
Harper Lee
Who wrote the fiction story “Uncle Tom’s Cabin?”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who wrote the nonfiction story “the story of my life”?
Helen Keller
Who wrote the fiction story “moby dick”?
Herman Melville
Who wrote the fiction stories “the call of the wild” “white fang” “martin Eden”?
Jack London
Who wrote the fiction story “the catcher in the rye”?
J.D. Salinger
Who wrote the fiction story “tiger lily”?
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Who wrote the fiction stories “the grapes of wrath” “of mice and men” “east of Eden”?
John Steinbeck
Who wrote the poetry “the weary blues” “let America be America again” “the big sea” “montage of a dream deferred”, the fiction stories “not without laughter” “the ways of white folks” and the nonfiction story “the best of simple”?
Langston Hughes
Who wrote the fiction story “the giver”?
Lois Lowry
Who wrote the drama story “a raisin in the sun”?
Lorraine Hansberry
Who wrote the fiction story “little women”?
Louisa May Alcott
Who wrote the fiction story “gone with the wind”?
Margarett Mitchell
Who wrote the fiction stories “the adventures of huckleberry Finn” “the adventures of Tom Sawyer”?
Mark Twain
Who wrote the nonfiction story “i know why the caged bird sings”?
Maya Angelou
Who wrote the nonfiction story “tuesdays with Morrie” and the fiction stories “the five people you meet in heaven” “for one more day” “the time keeper”?
Mitch Albom
Who wrote the fiction story “the scarlet letter”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote the poetry “in the bear’s house” and the fiction/poetry “in the presence of the sun”, and the poetry “the gourd dancer” and the fiction stories “house made of dawn” “circle of wonder:a Native American Christmas story” and the drama “the indolent boys”?
N. Scott Momaday
Who wrote the poetry “his excellency general Washington” “a hymn to the evening” “the right honorable William, earl of Dartmouth” “on being brought from Africa to America” “A farewell to America” “on virtue” “on imagination” “to S.M. A young African painter on seeing his works”?
Phillis Wheatley
Who wrote the fiction story “invisible man”?
Ralph Ellison
Who wrote the poetry “the road not taken”?
Robert Frost
