A character or characters' speech in a piece of literature.
What is dialogue?
100
What does CNF stand for?
Creative Nonfiction
100
Donald Hall's memoir of losing his wife to cancer.
What is "The Best Day The Worst Day"?
100
"He was the victim of an ailment so common that most people would consider it trivial."
What is "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" by Gay Talese?
100
A novel-length book that uses frames of illustrations along with words to tell a story.
What is a graphic novel?
200
How quickly or slowly the writing in a piece moves along.
What is pacing?
200
A subgenre of CNF that focuses on the personal experiences and insights of the author.
What is memoir?
200
A CNF piece about all the men in the U.S. with the same name as the author.
What is "Being Brians"?
200
FREEBIE!
Guess who couldn't think of any more questions?
200
Name the man who fabricated a memoir and was then yelled at by Oprah on national television (also, name the memoir).
James Frey and "A Million Little Pieces."
300
In CNF, the author and this person are the same. In Fiction, the author and this person(s) are different.
What is the narrator?
300
A subgenre of CNF that uses personal experience as a springboard for talking about more universal or exterior subjects/issues.
What is personal essay?
300
A CNF piece about a woman's experience at the movies with different men.
What is "Going to the Movies"?
300
"I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language--the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all--all the Englishes I grew up with."
What is "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan?
300
Name TWO issues surrounding the controversy of CNF.
Composite characters, time compression, elaboration, exaggeration, etc.
400
A technique to combine the characteristics of several real people into one.
What is a composite character?
400
A subgenre of CNF that is similar to reportage about other people or events, but the writer is also present in some way in the work.
What is literary journalism?
400
A humorous memory about a snow day during the author's childhood.
What is "Let it Snow"?
400
What vocabulary word(s) does the following excerpt demonstrate?
"And my mother was standing in the back whispering loudly, 'Why he don't send me check, already two weeks late. So mad he lie to me, losing me money.'"
Dialogue.
400
Describe the CNF continuum we discussed in class.
On one end is absolute truth (like newspaper reportage), on the other end is complete fabrication (like fantasy novels)--CNF exists somewhere in between, though closer to the truth side.
500
The appearance of being true.
What is verisimilitude?
500
Give examples of memoir, personal essay, and literary journalism.
Answers may vary but "Being Brians" is personal essay, "Going to the Movies" is memoir, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" is literary journalism.
500
A piece describing the music or sound of the universe.
What is "Murmurs"?
500
"Your child's voice sounds like no one else's because the resonant cavities within her throat create a unique voiceprint."