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Book Awards
Book Awards
Literary Elements
Literary Elements
Literary Elements
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The oldest of many book awards given today
What is the Newbery Medal?
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She was the first recipient of the award that bears her name.
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
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One way to assess the literary merit of fiction books is to analyze and evaluate these
What are literary elements?
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Who the story is about
What are the characters?
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The sequence of events showing characters in action
What is the plot?
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This international prize is the most prestigious award.
What is the Hans Christian Andersen Award?
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He was an English publisher who first made books that were both instructional and entertaining available to young people.
Who is John Newbery?
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Another name for the main character
What is the protagonist?
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The perspective from which an author presents a story
What is the point of view?
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The central idea of a book
What is a theme?
300
Gold foil or printed medallions adorn the covers of these books.
What are Caldecott Medal and Newbery Medal winners?
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He was a Danish storyteller and the father of modern fantasy.
Who is Hans Christian Andersen?
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The manner in which the writer expresses his or her ideas to convey a story.
What is style?
300
The interaction of plot and character or the opposition of two forces.
What is conflict?
300
There are four primary types of conflict: character against self, against nature, against another character, and against _________________
What is society?
400
This award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to literature for children published in the US during the preceding year.
What is the Newbery Medal?
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He is the only U.S. illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen award.
Who is Maurice Sendak?
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The resolution or the end of the story shows that the characters are in the same situation as when the story started.
What is a circular plot?
400
This tone is preachy and overly moralistic.
What is didactic?
400
There are two types of settings: integral and _____________
What is backdrop?
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Since this first award was given in 1956, only five authors and one illustrator from the US have won this highest international distinction.
What is the Hans Christian Andersen Award?
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The International Reading Association and the Children's Book Council cosponsor this project.
What is the Children's Choices list?
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Complex characters
What are round characters?
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A logically constructed plot
What is a linear plot?
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The story could not have taken place anywhere but in the setting specified by the author.
What is the integral setting?