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Reading Genres

Fiction:

Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes.

Realistic Fiction: consists of stories that tell about situations occurring in the real world. There can be no magic or fantasy involved in the plot, although there may be very unusual events occurring or even exaggerated characters.

Mystery: Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism.

Historical Fiction: Historical fiction is a sub-genre of fiction that often portrays alternate accounts or dramatization of historical figures or events. Stories in this genre, while fictional, make an honest attempt at capturing the spirit, manners, and social conditions of the person or time they represent with attention paid to detail and fidelity.[1] Historical fiction is found in books, magazines,[2] art, television, movies, games, theater, and other media.

Traditional Fiction: The stories that are passed down from person to person are grouped together in the traditional fiction genre. These stories are also called folklore and include fairy tales, folktales, myths, and legends. These stories have been told over the years and passed down through generations.

Science fiction : includes stories that are based on scientific knowledge or theory. For example, these stories might be about space, time travel, or other scientific ventures.

NonFiction: is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful.

Informational: a type of nonfition which is usually a Biography or an Autobiography.

Biography: A story written of a person's life not written by that person.

Autobiography: a written story of a person's life written by the same person.

Literary Terms
Alliteration: the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words (e.g. rough and ready).

Climax: the high point, or turning point, in a story--usually the most intense point near the end of a story.

Conflict: in narration, the struggle between the opposing forces that moves the plot forward. Conflict can be internal, or external.

Dialect: a particular variety of language spoken in one place by a distinct group of people. A dialect reflects the colloquialisms, grammatical constructions, distinctive vocabulary, and pronunciations that are typical of a region. At times writers use dialect to establish or emphasize settings as well as to develop characters.

Dialouge: conversation between two or more people that advances the action, is consistent with the character of the speakers, and serves to give relief from passages essentially descriptive or expository.

Epic: a long arrative that tells of the deeds and adventures of a hero or heroine.

Epithet: an adjective or phrase used to express the characteristic of a person or thing in poetry (e.g. rosy-fingered dawn).

Fable: a short, simple story that teaches a lesson. A fable usually includes animals that talk and act like people.

Fairy tale: a story written for, or told to, children. The story often inclused elements of magic and magical folk such as fairies,elves, or goblins.

Falling Action: in the plot of a story, the action that occuse after the climax. During the falling action, conflictsare resolved and mysteries are solved.

Literary Terms Point Of View
Point of View

Singular					Plural First Person	I 	My   	Mine 	Me		We 	Our	Ours	Us

Second Person	You	Your	Yours	You		You 	Your	Yours	You

Third Person	He 	It	His it’s her Her Hers Him	       They 	Their	Theirs	Them

Literary Terms:

Point of view: a narrator tells a story from a certain point of view. All short stories which are stories from your reading book have a narrator who tells the story.

Pronoun: renames noun, takes place of noun example: Edger Allen Poe rented a home in Philadelphia and it is now a national historical site.

Pronoun renames Edger Allen Poe’s House

Adjective: decribiing words examples: Yummy, sour, tasty, sticky, good candy, sweet candy.

Setting/When and where does the story take place, how does it help to make the story scary.

Adjective: a word that describes somebody or something (old, white, busy, careful, horrible). Adjectives either come before a noun or after linking verbs.

Allusion: a reference in literature or in visual or performing arts, to a familiar person, place, or thing, or event. Allusions to biblical figures, figures from classical mythology are common in Western literature.

Analogy: a means of conveying meaning by showing the correspondence or partial similarity between varying conceps or ideas.

Ballad: a poem in verse form that tells a story.

Literary Elements: the commonly accepted structures that contribute to the whole of a story, most commonly character, characterization, seeing, conflict resoluation, main idea, supporting ideas, plot, and theme.

Main idea: in infromational or expository writing, the most important thought or overall position. the main idea or thesis of a piece, written in sentence form, is supported by details and explanation.

Metaphor: a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically different but have something in common. Unlike a simile, a methapor does not contain the workds like or as.

Mood: the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. The use of connotation, details, dialouge, imagery, figurative language, foreshadowing, setting, and rhtythm can help establish mood.

Noun: a word that is the class name of something: a person, place, thing, or idea.

Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Personification: a form of metaphor in which language relating to human action, motivation, and emotion is used to refer to non-human agents or objects, or abstract concepts.

Phonemic awareness: awareness that spoken language consists of a sewuence of phonemes. this awareness is demonstrated, for example, in the ability to generate rhyme and alliteration, and in segmenting, and blending component sounds.

Propaganda techniques: methods of conveying informaiton selectively information selectively to produce and opinion or action favorable to the source fo information.

scaffolding: a temporary conceptual frame work used for constructing theories. In instruction, a means of structuring concepts to build or relate old ideas to new learning, or to eleborate a basic concept.

Stanza: a recurring grouping of two or more verse lines in terms of length, metrical form, and often, rhyme scheme.

Text Structure: the organizational pattern an author uses to structure the ideas in a text.

Tone: an expression of a writer's attitude toward a subject. Unlike mood, which is intended to shape the reader's emotional response, tone reflects the feelings of the writer.

Writing process: the steps a writer uses to compose a text. this may include brainstroming, writing, revising, editing, and publishing.