Poetry
What is "Found Poetry"?
It is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other texts to create a poem. It is like making a collage, recycling words to form a poem. Words can either be highlighted in a text, cut out or as in this case, crossed out. These are examples of Blackout Poetry.
It refers to the textual and visual elements that surround, introduce, or complement the main body of a published work (such as a book or article) but are not part of the core narrative. It is a subcategory of paratext.
Peritext
Who said this? “The best way to understand how a text works is to change it: to play around with it in some way (large or small) and then to try to account for the exact effect of what you have done.”
This quote was coined by the educationalist and literary critic Rob Pope. It famously appears in his foundational book, Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies
Name 4 titles of picturebooks by Anthony Browne we've read in class.
Into the Forest
The Tunnel
Piggybook
Zoo
Which novel can help us introduce the theme neurodiversity in our class?
A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
Define Instapoetry.
A renaissance of poetry posted, mostly, by digital-native millenial women and people of colour on social media platforms, mainly on Instagram and Twitter.
Poems are divided into....
An the speaker in a poem can also be called...
Stanzas
Voice / Persona/ lyrical I
________________ (1960s - present) critics believe that the READER is the CO-AUTHOR OF THE TEXT.
Reader- response
What is the peritext in a picturebook?
All the material that is not the text itself.
In a picture book where the illustrations
and written text together count as text, the
peritext does not include the illustrations.
Typically, the peritext is the domain of
designers, typographers, publishers,
publicity and marketing people.
Mention 3 novels by Michael Morpurgo.
The Butterfly Lion
Private Peaceful
Kensuke's Kingdom
An Elephant in the Garden
Friend or Foe
War Horses
What kind of poetry is a mixture of poetry and drama?
Performance Poetry
A literary technique that presents common, everyday objects or situations in an unfamiliar or strange way. Coined by Russian theorist Viktor Shklovsky in 1917, it forces readers to slow down, break out of their routine habits of perception, and view reality from a fresh perspective.
Making the Familiar Strange: Instead of describing an object exactly as it is, an author describes it as if they have never seen it before.
Defamiliarisation
Formalists object to reader response theory for:
being subjective and relative as earlier theories sought for as much objectivity as possible.
They proposed:
the affective fallacy (didn’t consider the reader’s feelings/interpretation)
intentional fallacy (no consideration for what the author meant)
Which book is considered by many to be a “perfect” picturebook?
Sendak’s "Where the Wild Things Are" (1963)
How does Cece Bell help readers "experience" deafness in El Deafo?
Cece Bell uses blank, fading, and garbled speech bubbles to help readers physically "experience" deafness. Seeing these unique speech bubbles change the way we understand Cece’s challenges with lip-reading and hearing during her time at school and while making friends.
A reflective, 10 line poem about a person is known as a...
Biopoem
It refers to the deliberate ambiguities, silences, and unstated spaces in a literary text. It is a core concept in Reader-Response theory (pioneered by theorists like Wolfgang Iser and Roman Ingarden) which argues that meaning is not just dictated by the author, but actively constructed by the reader filling in these blanks.
gap of indeterminacy
Language that INVOLVES, i.e., engages
the imagination of the receiver is known as...
but language which informs is....
Representational Language
Referential Language
Mention at least 3 characteristics of postmodern picturebooks.
Fragmentation: Non-linear, fragmented
narratives.
Metafictional: self-referential writing and
images, narrator/character breaks frame to
address reader, print and narrative
conventions are broken (breaking the 4th
wall), blurring boundaries between fiction
and reality, draws attention to its status as an
artefact.
Undermining notions of the canon
Intertextual
Indeterminacy: multiple perspectives/
readings, ambiguity, unreliability
Highly interactive, requiring active construction and sense making on the part of the reader.
Texts function as image
Images: not passive illustrations, add, extend and contradict.
Parodic
Which pattern is repeated in novels, fairy tales and stories for children?
The home/ away / home pattern
What kind of poem is...
Also known as “visual poetry.”
The typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance.
a mixture of drawing and writing?
Concrete poetry
It is a literary and rhetorical device where multiple conjunctions (such as and, or, but, or nor) are used in close succession to deliberately slow down the pace of a sentence, create rhythm, or emphasize the items in a list.
For example, "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy"
polysyndeton
______________is the practice of combining multiple communication methods—such as text, visuals, audio, and physical gestures—to convey a single message. Rather than relying solely on traditional written words, multimodality uses a synergy of formats (or "modes") to engage audiences, enhance comprehension, and create deeper meaning.
Multimodality
Which picturebook writer for children generally writes using rhyming couplets?
The most universally recognized picture book writer who primarily writes in rhyming couplets is Julia Donaldson, famous for bestsellers like The Gruffalo and Room on a Broom.
Which common assumptions may influence our decision when choosing a novel for children?
The Assumptions of :
Limited Capacity
Egocentricity
Innocence