Final

Question 1

Type of literature

Answer 1

Genre

Question 2

A tool for teaching, perhaps too much “preachy”

Answer 2

Didactic

Question 3

Substantial body of important literature (the great books)

Answer 3

Canon

Question 4

Changing one’s language based on context

Answer 4

Code switching

Question 5

You are the only one alive and everyone else is an illusion

Answer 5

Solipsism

Question 6

Another word for negative

Answer 6

Pejorative

Question 7

Heterosexual/homosexual rating scale

Answer 7

Kinsey scale

Question 8

‘what it means’ - author’s intent (author’s bio and other writings) type of criticism

Answer 8

Traditional Lit. Criticism

Question 9

Work itself, nothing else needed - ‘well-wrought-urn’ (close readings) type of criticism

Answer 9

New Criticism

Question 10

Gender based theory

Answer 10

Feminist Theory

Question 11

Sexuality based - critically think what text is saying about sexuality - theory

Answer 11

Queer Theory

Question 12

Race is constructed theory

Answer 12

Critical Race Theory

Question 13

Chicanola studies (Hispanic authors)

Answer 13

Ethnic studies

Question 14

What able person or not able person ‘looks’ like

Answer 14

Disability studies

Question 15

Meaning/collaboration between reader and the text

Answer 15

Reader-Response Criticism

Question 16

“The closet” and the journey of discovering sexuality

Answer 16

Coming-out-narrative

Question 17

Building story - building the self

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Bildungsroman

Question 18

Story of a character’s maturation

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Coming of Age

Question 19

Implied claim about what the text is making (how the world works or about being human)

Answer 19

Theme

Question 20

Present message in today’s world. Often coming of age stories. Standing up for how you are.

Answer 20

Young Adult Literature

Question 21

Comparison of 2 unlike things that doesn’t use like or as

Answer 21

Metaphor

Question 22

Uses direct comparison language such as like or as

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Simile

Question 23

A concrete thing standing in for an abstract idea

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Symbol

Question 24

Who wrote the hate you give

Answer 24

Angie Thomas

Question 25

Who wrote Ari and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Answer 25

Benjamin Sáenz

Question 26

Who wrote turtles all the down

Answer 26

John Green

Question 27

Discusses taboo or otherwise difficult subjects (could happen to anyone in life)

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Realistic Fiction

Question 28

Travel through dimensions/ math and science tie together

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Science Fiction

Question 29

Ways that you should act (social norms)

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Mores

Question 30

Reference to another work inside of your work

Answer 30

Allusion

Question 31

Repeats object throughout the story

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Motif

Question 32

What are the YA literature criteria

Answer 32

Written about teenagers - young adult main character - 1st person POV Tackling the adult issues in teenage lives Progress - life lessons - internal conflict The journey towards identity Limited number of characters - simple but emotionally complicated keep it under R-rating - some content not discussed

Question 33

Who wrote A Wrinkle in Time

Answer 33

Madeleine L’Engle

Question 34

Who wrote When You Reach Me

Answer 34

Rebecca Stead

Question 35

Who wrote the outsiders

Answer 35

S.E. Hinton

Question 36

Who wrote The Pigman

Answer 36

Paul Zindel

Question 37

Who wrote A Critical Apparatus

Answer 37

Michael Cart

Question 38

What is the thesis of A Critical Apparatus?

Answer 38

The critical apparatus is important to understand readings like YA lit writings

Question 39

Who wrote Disability Narrative Theory and YA of Mental Illness

Answer 39

Diane Scrofano

Question 40

What is the thesis the disability narrative theory

Answer 40

Write more novels about mental illness for children to relate to and read

Question 41

Who wrote The New Realism

Answer 41

Maia Mertz

Question 42

What is the thesis of the new realism

Answer 42

To reevaluate controversial novels to determine if they’re traditional or not

Question 43

Who wrote YA…Defining the Genre

Answer 43

Jonathan Stephen

Question 44

What is the thesis of YA… Defining the Genre

Answer 44

Different threads make a YA book apart of the genre

Question 45

What is the hate you give about

Answer 45

African American teenagers and police brutality and protests turned into riot Starr, Khalil, Seven, Kenya, Devante, Chris

Question 46

What is the plot of Ari and Dante

Answer 46

Discovering love, homosexuality, birds, coming out story Aristotle and Dante

Question 47

What is the plot of turtles all the way down

Answer 47

OCD and anxiety, mystery murder, voices in head Aza, Daisy, Davis

Question 48

What is the plot of a wrinkle in time

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Time travel to save father, love and anger, family and friends, IT Meg, Charles Wallace, Calvin, Mrs. Whatsit, Who, Which, Aunt Beast

Question 49

What is the plot of the outsiders

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Greasers vs Socs rivalry, family, church rescue, fighting, death Ponyboy, Johnny, Two Bit, Dally, Darry, Sodapop, Bob, etc.

Question 50

What is the plot of when you reach me

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Wrinkle in time book connection, time travel, $20,000 pyramid, friends, secret notes Miranda, Marcus = laughing man, Sal

Question 51

What is the plot of the Pigman

Answer 51

Prank call turned into friendship, lying, monkey at the zoo, pig figurines, party, heart attack, Death Lorraine, John, Mr. Pignati, Dennis and Norton, Conchetta