This or That
Historical Fiction or Nonfiction: Audacity
What is historical fiction?
Washington Irving's story tells about narrator Dietrich Knickerbocker, who then tells the story of Rip Van Winkle
What is a frame story?
A fictional story that is shorter than a novel, but longer than a short story.
What is a novella?
Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book begins with a scene from 1992 and then goes back to the fall of 1990 before relating events of the subject's early life through their death.
What is an achronological plot?
Drama or Novel: The Great Gatsby
What is a novel?
Fantasy or Science Fiction: The Martian
What is science fiction?
Brent Runyon's book recounts his recovery process following his attempted suicide when he was 14-years old
What is a memoir?
A type of folk tale that typically involves animals, is extremely short, and teaches some sort of moral
What is a fable?
In Christopher Paul Curtis' 1995 novel, the Watson family travels to Birmingham in 1963 and experiences many forms of racial injustice along the way.
What is historical fiction?
Memoir or Bildungsroman: The House on Mango Street
What is a bildungsroman?
Legend or Myth: Cerberus, the Three-Headed Dog of Hades
What is a myth?
James Joyce's story of Stephen Dedalus, a young Irish boy, who spiritually and intellectually matures over the course of the novel
What is a bildungsroman?
A genre where the author alludes to fictional aspects of the story.
What is metafiction?
Velma Wallis' tale has a plot that begins with the two old women being kicked out of their tribe, continues with their experience living on their own, and ends with them reuniting with their original tribe.
What is a chronological plot?
Prose or Verse: Emily Dickinson's poetry
Fantasy or Fairy Tale: Warrior Cats
What is a fantasy?
Margaret Atwood's story where child-bearing women, called handmaids, wear red and are forced to produce children for the ruling men and women of Gilead and have no say over their own bodies or children.
What is dystopian?
A plot with no clear sequence
What is non sequitur?
In Alexander Hamilton's piece, he defends the Constitution and argues for a strong government.
What is an essay?
Dystopian or Allegory: The Giver
What is dystopian?
Parody or Satire: Animal Farm
What is satire?
John Bunyan's story wherein Christian travels from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City and encounters characters such as Hopeful and Faithful and must make it through the Slough of Despond and the Valley of Humiliation.
What is an allegory?
A nonfiction composition that explores a concept, argument, or idea
What is an essay?
In Lionel Shriver's book, Eva, the first person narrator, reflects candidly and painfully on raising her son in a series of letters to her husband after their son commits a school shooting that kills many
What is epistolary?
Chronological or Achronological Plot: "Cathedral"
What is chronological plot?