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| Realism (genre: characters) |
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| Best novels have round central chacaters. Poor ones load protagonist with problems, or have flat or stereotyped characters |
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| any kind of conflict. If problem is solved too easily, story is flawed. |
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| Any. Sentimentality, sensationalism, didacticism are flaws |
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| Animal Realism (genre: charater) |
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| Realistic protrayal of animals, without personification |
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| Animal Realism (genre: plot) |
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| Conflict is usually animal verus nature |
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| Animal Realism (genre: setting) |
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| Animal Realism (genre: theme) |
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| Usually related to some discovery about animals or their relationships to humans |
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| Historical Fiction (genre: characters) |
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| Protagonist has universal human traits, but it a product of the time and place |
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| Historical Fiction (genre: plot) |
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| Any, but conflict more often person versus society or self, as well as another person |
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| Historical Fiction (genre: setting) |
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| Integral setting with focus on particular time and place, usually time of stress or crisis, or of social change |
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| Historical Fiction (genre: theme) |
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| Fantasy Stories (genre: characters) |
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| Like or unlike humans; magical qualities; personified toys, animals, objects |
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| Fantasy Stories (genre: plot) |
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| Fantasy Stories (genre: setting) |
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| Fantasy Stories (genre: theme) |
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| Fable (genre: characters) |
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| Flat and stock; often personified animals with single traits |
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| Person-versus-person conflict; extremely brief; usually a single incident |
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| Folktale (genre: characters) |
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| Flat, even the protagonist; bad and good characters easily identified; stock characters like the wicked stepmoter and the fairy godmother |
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| Person-versus-person or Person-versus-personified nature conflicts. Action moves rapidly to a climax and stock closing |
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| Folktale (genre: setting) |
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| Backdrop setting: "Long ago and far away..." |
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| Either implicit or explicit. Often strongley focused on justice |
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| Narrative Poetry (genre: form or focus) |
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| Storytelling long or short |
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| Narrative Poetry (genre: rhythm) |
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| Narrative Poetry (genre: rhyme) |
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| Narrative Poetry (genre: devices) |
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| Any, through fewer than in lyrics |
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| Nursery Rhymes (genre: form or focus) |
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| Topics open to young children; usually brief; any tone; folk in origin |
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| Nursery Rhymes (genre: rhythm) |
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| Nursery Rhymes (genre: rhyme) |
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| Nursery Rhymes (genre: devices) |
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| Personification, simile, metaphor, and others |
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| Lyric or Personal Poetry (genre: form or focus) |
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| Brief; subjective; personal emotional response; single unified impression; "An end in itsefl"; intense, compact |
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| Lyric or Personal Poetry (genre: rhythm) |
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| Suited to topic and emotion evoked |
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| Lyric or Personal Poetry (genre: rhyme) |
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| Lyric or Personal Poetry (genre: devices) |
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| All figurative and sound deviced used to produce compactness |
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| Consists of literal, realistic depictions of character, objects, and events |
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| Contains "startling images and incongruities" that often suggest an "attitude or mockery about conventionalilites" |
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| Emphasizes light and color; create an impression of reality. They may break an image into many bits of color to mimic the way the eye perceives and merges color to create images |
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| A broad designation for the style of artistic expression of a particular cultural group. "THIS" art may simplify, exaggerate, or distort reality, but it does so in a way that is characterisitc of the tradional art of a culture, often through the use of tradional motifs, symbols, and techniques |
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| Technically unsophisticated but markers by an artist's clear intense emotions and visions |
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| Emphasizes line, reduces features to simplified shapes, and uses exaggeration in two dimensions to create caricature |
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| Lines and Shapes (design element) |
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| Convey action, rhythm, they can be strong and solid or dimintive and quick |
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| Creates contrast, hight dramatic or soothing effects |
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| Conveys tension, adds interest or movement |
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| Representational (style of art) |
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| literal, realistic depictions |
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| Setting (literary element) |
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| When and where the story takes place; can be integral or backdrop; can function as symbol |
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| The sequence of events in which characters play out roles in some kind of conflict |
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Self vs. self
Self vs. other
Self vs. society
Self vs. nature |
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| Characters (literary element) |
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| the begins that populate a story; round, well-developed dynamic main "this" (protagonists/ antagonists); flat, static supporting "this", foil "this" develop through |
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| thread of ideas that tie the story together; explicit or implicit |
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| Point of View (literary element) |
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| Omniscient narrator; 3rd person limited; 3rd person omniscient; 1st person; multiple/ parallel narrators; 2nd person |
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| The way a text is written; authors have unique "this"; nature of the story influences "this"; purpose and audience influence "this" |
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| Color (illustration element) |
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convey character, mood, emotion
(hue, value/tone, saturation) |
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| Line (illustration element) |
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our attention/ focuses our eye
(horizontal, vertical, diagonal) |
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| Shape (illustration element) |
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| 2-dimensional form representing an object |
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| Texture (illustration element) |
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| created by an artist to comminicate the sensation of roughness, smoothness, hardness, softness, ect. |
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| Style (illustration element) |
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| Impact of all the elements together |
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| Media (illustration element) |
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| illustrators use a variety of media to create their artwork; main types are painterly and graphic |
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| Bibliographic Information |
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| author, illustrator, year published, publisher company name, publisher city, title of book |
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