Module IV Flashcards

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Is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices to evoke an emotional response. It has been known to employ meter and rhyme. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define.

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Poetry

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Is a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict more contrast of character, especially on intended to be acted on a stage: a play. It may be any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting, or striking interest.

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Drama

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Is literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature in the fiction include the novel, short story, and novella.
One of the most common techniques for writing fiction is ‘show’ don’t tell’. This means you show the reader what’s happening rather than just telling them exactly what happens. This leaves lots of room for inferences.

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Fiction

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Is based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject. The purpose of non-fiction writing is to inform and sometimes to persuade. Its examples are biographies, articles from textbooks and magazines and newspapers.

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Non-fiction

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• Story through text and illustrated images

• 50% of the narrative is presented without words

• The reader must interpret the images to comprehend the story completely.

• Textual portions are presented in traditional form.

• Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all.

• Span all genres.

• Examples include The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and The Arrival by Shaun Tan.

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Illustrated Novel

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• Triple Media Literature

• Combines three media: book, movie/video and internet website To get the full story, students must engage in navigation, reading, and viewing in all three forms.

• Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek and Anthony Zuiker’s Level 26 are examples.

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DIGI-FICTION

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• Narrative in comic book formats.

• Narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using a comic form.

• The term is employed in broadly manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across a number of genres.

• Archie Comics by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob Montana, is a good example.

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Graphic Novel

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• Japanese word for comics

• It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels originally published in Japan.

• Considered as an artistic and storytelling style.

• Ameri-manga- sometimes used to refer to comics created by American artists in manga style.

• Shonen- Boy’s Manga (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece)

• Shojo- Girl’s Manga (Sailormoon)

• Seinen- Men’s Manga (Akira)

• Josei- Women’s Manga (Loveless, Paradise Kiss)

• Kodomo- Children’s Manga (Doraemon, Hello Kitty)

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Manga

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• Literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle writing, drawings, and handwritten graphics in place of the traditional font.

• Drawing enhances the story, often adding humorous elements

• Examples include The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney and Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis.

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Doodle Fiction

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• Blogs, email, and IM format narratives

• Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchanges.

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Text-Talk Novels

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• Is genre fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly.

• Chick Lit typically features a female protagonist whose femininity is heavily thermalizing in the plot.

• Scarlet Bailey’s The night before Christmas and Miranda Dickinson’s It started with a Kiss are examples of this.

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Click Lit or Chick Literature

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• Is a style of fictional literature of extreme brevity

• There is no widely accepted definition of the length and category. It could range from word to a thousand.

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Flash Fiction

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• Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby socks, never worn.

• Margaret Atwood: Longed for him. Got him, Shit.

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Six-Word Flash Fiction

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• Also known as literary non-fiction or narrative non-fiction

• A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.

• Contrasts with other non-fiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service to its craft.

• As a genre, creative non-fiction is still relatively young and is only beginning to be scrutinized with the same critical analysis given to fiction and poetry.

• 1000 Gifts by Ann Voscamp and Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery are examples.

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Creative Non-Fiction

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• Is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, a parallel universe and extra-terrestrial life.

• Often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations and has been called a “literature of ideas”.

• Examples include Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay and Sarah Maas’ Kingdom of Ash.

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Science Fiction

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• A web-log, a website containing short articles called posts that are changed regularly.

• Some blogs are written by one person containing his or her own opinions, interests and experiences, while others are written by different people.

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Blog

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• Digital poetry uses links and hypertext mark-up.

• It can either involve set words, phrases, lines, etc. that are presented in variable order but sit on the page much as traditional poetry does, or it can contain parts of the poem that move and transform.

• It is usually found online, through CD-ROM and diskette versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than the mid-1980’s.

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Hyper Poetry

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The chain of events in a story
that traces a conflict between
two forces.

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Plot

19
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A person, animal, or thing in a story.

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Character

20
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Is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.

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Theme

21
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The TIME & PLACE of a story.

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Setting

22
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The main character in a story.

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Protagonist

23
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Someone who opposes or fights against another character (usually the protagonist).

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Antagonist

24
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Can be one-sided, stereotypes, & play a minor role.

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Flat Characters

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They are complex. take center stage, and seem life-like.

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Round Characters.