Domain 3: Texts

Question 1

What is the purpose of teaching children’s literature?

Answer 1

To provide students with an appreciation of a lifetime of reading enjoyment.

Question 2

What are some different genres of reading texts?

Answer 2

Novels, Short stories, Expositions, Folk Tales, Myths, and Poetry.

Question 3

Describe the genre: Novel

Answer 3

Novels use the same basic literary conventions as do short stories, but they expand them by presenting more complicated plots, adding subplots, creating more nuanced characters, and deepening the debelopment of ideas. Usually introduced after the ages 9-12 when they are ready to sustain the more difficult challenge of novels.

Question 4

Describe the genre: Short stories

Answer 4

Short stories are popular forms of literature in the elementary school classroom. A condensed story with a single or limited purpose. They contain plot, character, setting, pov, and theme. They include dramatic elements like: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement.

Question 5

Describe the dramatic element exposition

Answer 5

The introduction of setting, main characters, and conflict.

Question 6

Describe the dramatic element rising action

Answer 6

The event or events that allow the protagonist to make his or her commitment to a course of action as the conflict intensifies.

Question 7

Describe the dramatic element Climax.

Answer 7

The point of highest interest in terms of the conflict, the point with the most action or the turning point for the protagonist.

Question 8

Describe the dramatic element falling Action

Answer 8

The events that follow from the protagonist’s action in the climax.

Question 9

Describe the dramatic element Denouement.

Answer 9

(Resolution) The point when the conflict is resolved, remaining loose ends are tied up, and a moralis intimated or stated directly.

Question 10

Describe the genre: Folk Tales

Answer 10

They are old as language. Adapt from culture to culture. Generally defined as prose narratives that follow traditional storylines that arise from oral traditions in histories. Telling tales is culturally universal and shares a commanality with prim9itive societies alike, they are classified into categories: legends - narratives, creation stories and tribal beginings.

Fairy Tales: Fictional, recurring plots, begin with a formulaic opening line.

Animal Folk Tales: abound in every culture; in most cases, the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities.

Question 11

Describe the genre: Myths.

Answer 11

Hard to precisely define. Evoke events of a time long past, generally concern the adventures and misadventures of gods, giants, and heroes… Set in a time different from our human, historical timeline.

Question 12

Describe the genre: Poetry

Answer 12

Encompass works written in verse, perhaps with a meter and rhyme scheme, and uses written language in a pattern that is sung, chanted, or spoken to emphasize the relationships between words and ideas on the basis of sound as well as meaning. There are three major categories of poetry: narrative, dramatic, and lyric.

Question 13

Define Aliteration

Answer 13

The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.

Question 14

Define Analogy

Answer 14

A comparison of similar traits between dissimilar things in order to highlight a point of similarity.

Question 15

Define Figurative Language

Answer 15

A word or phrase that departs from literal language. The most common examples are metaphor and simile.

Question 16

Define Hyperbole

Answer 16

Deliberate exaggeration for effort. “The whole world’s problems are on my shoulders”

Question 17

Define Imagery

Answer 17

Words or phrases that appeal to the senses.

Question 18

Define Irony

Answer 18

The use of words to suggest the opposite of their intended meaning.

Question 19

Define Literal Language

Answer 19

The actual definition of a word

Question 20

Define metaphor

Answer 20

A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. “The angry sea crashed against the wall”

Question 21

Define Simile

Answer 21

A figure of speech that has a direct comparison between unlike things using like or as. “you are as quiet as a mouse”

Question 22

Define symbol

Answer 22

Usually concrete objects or images that represent abstract ideas.

Question 23

Define Allegory

Answer 23

A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning.

Question 24

Define Allusion

Answer 24

A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.

Question 25

Define Attitude

Answer 25

A speaker’s, author’s, or character’s, disposition toward or opinion of a subject.

Question 26

Define Cannotation

Answer 26

The implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).

Question 27

Define Convention

Answer 27

A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression.

Question 28

Define Diction

Answer 28

Word choice.

Question 29

Define Euphemism

Answer 29

A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness.

Question 30

Define Hyperbole

Answer 30

Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement.

Question 31

Define Lyrical

Answer 31

Songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination.

Question 32

Paradox

Answer 32

A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but in fact is true.

Question 33

Rhetorical Question

Answer 33

A question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. The question presupposes only one answer.

Question 34

Thetorical techniques

Answer 34

The devices used in effective or persuasive language.

Question 35

Soliloquy

Answer 35

A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud.