UNIT 6: GENRE FICTION

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UNIT 6 GENRE FICTION
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Genre Fiction

• Works of fiction with similar characters, plots,
  or settings (such as mystery, science fiction,
  romance, and fantasy)
• Does NOT come from oral tradition (like myths and
  folktales)
• NOT usually rooted in history

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Genre Focus

• Science Fiction

• Fantasy

• Deals with impact of science and technology (real
  or imagined) on society and people
• Sometimes set in future
• Often portrays space travel, planet exploration,
  futuristic societies, or scientific/technological
  advances

• Highly imaginative
• Usually set in unfamiliar world or distant,
  heroic past
• Often includes fantastical beings (elves, gnomes,
  hobbits, etc.), supernatural forces, and
  sometimes humans
• Often uses magic

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Fantasy
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Genre Focus

• Fable

• Mystery

• Brief, usually simple tale
• Teaches lesson or gives advice on good behavior
• Themes often stated directly
• Modern fables focus on themes relating to human
  behaviorlittle development of individual
  characters

• Standard plot pattern with mystery to solve
• May include spy stories and tales of danger or
  adventure
• Detective stories follow standard plot pattern
  crime is committed detective searches for clues
  to find criminal

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Mystery
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Elements of Genre Fiction

• Style
• Diction
• Voice

• Tone
• Imagery
• Sensory Details

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Authors Style

• Expressive qualities that distinguish a writers
  works contribute to style
• Dictionword choice
• Voicedistinctive use of language to convey
  personality of author or narrator to reader

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Authors Tone

• Writers attitude toward subject
• Conveyed through word choice, punctuation,
  sentence structure, and figures of speech
• Examples of tone sympathetic, serious,
  objective, ironic, sad, sarcastic, light-hearted,
  bitter, humorous

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Imagery and Description

• Create vivid word pictures
• Imagerydescriptive language that appeals to the
  senses
• Descriptiondetailed portrayal of a person,
  place, thing, or event

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Sensory Details

• Evocative words or phrases that appeal to one or
  more of the
• five senses to create effective images
• Sight
• Hearing
• Touch
• Taste
• Smell

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DESCRIPTION

• Q How do fantasy and science fiction writers
  help readers experience events and things that
  are imaginary?
• A Create word pictures that evoke emotional
  responses or use details that appeal to the
  senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell
• A Use figurative language

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Figurative Language

• Uses figures of speech or expressions that arent
  literally true but express some truth on another
  level
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

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Figurative Language

• Simile uses like or as to compare two
  seemingly unlike things

• Metaphor compares two seemingly unlike things
  without using like or as

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Figurative Language

• Personification
• gives human characteristics to an animal,
  object, force of nature, or idea

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love is a pot full of yellow corn to warm your
belly in winter (Baca).

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification

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She ate like a bird.

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification

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Nor shall Death brag thou wandrest in his
shade (Shakespeare).

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification