Final Flashcards
Type of literature
Genre
A tool for teaching, perhaps too much “preachy”
Didactic
Substantial body of important literature (the great books)
Canon
Changing one’s language based on context
Code switching
You are the only one alive and everyone else is an illusion
Solipsism
Another word for negative
Pejorative
Heterosexual/homosexual rating scale
Kinsey scale
‘what it means’ - author’s intent (author’s bio and other writings) type of criticism
Traditional Lit. Criticism
Work itself, nothing else needed - ‘well-wrought-urn’ (close readings) type of criticism
New Criticism
Gender based theory
Feminist Theory
Sexuality based - critically think what text is saying about sexuality - theory
Queer Theory
Race is constructed theory
Critical Race Theory
Chicanola studies (Hispanic authors)
Ethnic studies
What able person or not able person ‘looks’ like
Disability studies
Meaning/collaboration between reader and the text
Reader-Response Criticism
“The closet” and the journey of discovering sexuality
Coming-out-narrative
Building story - building the self
Bildungsroman
Story of a character’s maturation
Coming of Age
Implied claim about what the text is making (how the world works or about being human)
Theme
Present message in today’s world. Often coming of age stories. Standing up for how you are.
Young Adult Literature
Comparison of 2 unlike things that doesn’t use like or as
Metaphor
Uses direct comparison language such as like or as
Simile
A concrete thing standing in for an abstract idea
Symbol
Who wrote the hate you give
Angie Thomas
Who wrote Ari and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Sáenz
Who wrote turtles all the down
John Green
Discusses taboo or otherwise difficult subjects (could happen to anyone in life)
Realistic Fiction
Travel through dimensions/ math and science tie together
Science Fiction
Ways that you should act (social norms)
Mores
Reference to another work inside of your work
Allusion
Repeats object throughout the story
Motif
What are the YA literature criteria
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
Who wrote A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
Who wrote When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
Who wrote the outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Who wrote The Pigman
Paul Zindel
Who wrote A Critical Apparatus
Michael Cart
What is the thesis of A Critical Apparatus?
The critical apparatus is important to understand readings like YA lit writings
Who wrote Disability Narrative Theory and YA of Mental Illness
Diane Scrofano
What is the thesis the disability narrative theory
Write more novels about mental illness for children to relate to and read
Who wrote The New Realism
Maia Mertz
What is the thesis of the new realism
To reevaluate controversial novels to determine if they’re traditional or not
Who wrote YA…Defining the Genre
Jonathan Stephen
What is the thesis of YA… Defining the Genre
Different threads make a YA book apart of the genre
What is the hate you give about
African American teenagers and police brutality and protests turned into riot
Starr, Khalil, Seven, Kenya, Devante, Chris
What is the plot of Ari and Dante
Discovering love, homosexuality, birds, coming out story
Aristotle and Dante
What is the plot of turtles all the way down
OCD and anxiety, mystery murder, voices in head
Aza, Daisy, Davis
What is the plot of a wrinkle in time
Time travel to save father, love and anger, family and friends, IT
Meg, Charles Wallace, Calvin, Mrs. Whatsit, Who, Which, Aunt Beast
What is the plot of the outsiders
Greasers vs Socs rivalry, family, church rescue, fighting, death
Ponyboy, Johnny, Two Bit, Dally, Darry, Sodapop, Bob, etc.
What is the plot of when you reach me
Wrinkle in time book connection, time travel, $20,000 pyramid, friends, secret notes
Miranda, Marcus = laughing man, Sal
What is the plot of the Pigman
Prank call turned into friendship, lying, monkey at the zoo, pig figurines, party, heart attack, Death
Lorraine, John, Mr. Pignati, Dennis and Norton, Conchetta
