Terms
Protagonist
Main character
Young adult novel
For young adults, centered around a young adult protagonist
Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
Rupi Kaur
Blessed, …
Who are Harry Potter‘s best friends?
Ron Weasly and Hermione Granger
Covert narrator
Not revealing all the details
Lad lit
Young men in their 20s/30s
Brave New World
Aldus Huxley
Shakespeare
Hamlet, Sonnet 170
How many Harry Potter books are there?
7
Unreliable narrator
Narrator gives own understanding/ interpretation of the events
Interactive novel
More than one possible outcome, reader can choose what happens next
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Which characters are involved in the love triangle in the Hunger Games?
Katniss, Peeta, Gale
In medias res
Beginning „in the middle of things“ rather than at the beginning
Pulp fiction
Novels written for the mass market
Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo
Oscar Wilde
Picture of Dorian Gray, Importance of being Earnest
How do Romeo and Juliet die?
Poison / suicide
Deus ex machina
Something improbable and unexpected which is suddenly introduced to help solve the problem
Apologue
A moral fable, using personified animals acting like people to comment on humankind
Never Let me go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Where does Peter Pan live?
Neverland