Midterm 2

Question 1

Bildungsroman

Answer 1

A novel that chases growth

Question 2

Adventure Fiction

Answer 2

1) Masculinity: women largely absent, damsel in distress
2) Travel: protagonist must leave home. emphasis on discovering more about the world
3) Quest: here leaves home to…explore, obtain new resources, start a new life, rescue someone, etc.
4) Physicality: faces challenges in the form of sport, hunting, travel, fighting/combat
5) Danger: situation, characters, setting, mode of travel

Question 3

Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer 3

1850-1894 Author of Treasure Island, born in Scotland. Came from a long line of lighthouse engineers. Married to Fanny Osborne whose son Lloyd became the inspiration for Treasure Island.

Question 4

Louisa May Alcott

Answer 4

1832-1888 Author of Little Women

Question 5

Katherine Paterson

Answer 5

Author of Bridge to Terabithia. Based on what happened to her son

Question 6

5 Elements of Theory in Reader Response Theory

Answer 6

1) Process of Children’s Response to Literature
2) Development in Reading
3) Types of Behaviour
4) Culturally Oriented Studies
5) Text-Oriented Studies

Question 7

Five Elements of Fantasy

Answer 7

1. Characters of objects have the ability to do things that they could not do in reality
2. Story will feature characters or creatures that do not exist in reality
3. Events that could not occur in the real world
4. Magical elements such as broomsticks, magic carpets, etc.
5. Places that do not exist in the real world

Question 8

Types of Fantasy

Answer 8

1. Talking beasts – Jungle Book
2. Inanimate objects personified – Toy Story
3. Time Travel – Wrinkle in Time
4. New worlds - Wizard of Oz
5. Magic – Harry Potter

Question 9

Requirements for reading Fantasy

Answer 9

•	Suspension of disbelief
•	Fantasy involves the occurrence of an event that, in the real world, is impossible
•	Reader or character have two choices 
1.	View as dream or illusion
2.	Accept that there are unknown laws

Question 10

Psychoanalysis

Answer 10

supernatural elements are a symbolic extension of the purely human mind. Images can be interpreted in psychological terms.

Question 11

1899

Answer 11

Free public education is made available to all children in England

Question 12

1880

Answer 12

School attendance is made compulsory for children ages 5-10

Question 13

7 Elite Boarding Schools

Answer 13

Eton, Westminster, Charterhouse, Harrow, Winchester, Rugby, Charterhouse

Question 14

Thomas Arnold

Answer 14

Principle of Rugby school. Changes it into the model school in which the goal is to transform the men into ideal citizens

Question 15

Tom Hughes

Answer 15

Wrote Tom Brown’s School Days (1857)