Science Fiction
Another word for category
What is genre?
The genre that informational text falls into because it is about real events, people, etc.
What is non fiction?
The poem we read about the killing machine
What is "the drone" by Clint Smith?
The category of science fiction that includes stories like Frankenstein
What is the creation story?
A list of events in chronological order
What is a timeline?
Stories that are not real are part of this genre
What is fiction?
The title or phrase that is separates the sections of an informational text.
What is a heading?
The poem we read about nature still existing even after mankind is extinct
What is "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale?
The category of science fiction that includes traveling to another world to meet aliens
What is the fantastic voyage?
The name for "paragraphs" in a poem
What is stanzas?
The genre that is confused with science fiction but includes magic
The sentence that explains an image included in an informational text
What is caption?
The short story we read about the house and appliances that existed after a nuclear bomb and was ultimately consumed by fire
What is "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury?
What is domestic science fiction?
giving a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman; the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
Robots, spaceships, and drones are advanced versions of this
What is technology?
The Diary of Anne Frank is NOT an informational informational text. It is an ____________ because it written by Anne Frank about her own life.
What is an autobiography?
The setting (time) for all of the texts we read
What is the future?
The type of world in which technological advances or encounters with other life forms goes horribly wrong. It is the opposite of a utopia.
What is a dystopia?
a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
Fill-in-the-blank: Science fiction often exists in the _______, but it can also exist in an alternative present, or even in the past.
What is future?
Informational texts can come in many formats. This particular format is a document, usually folded vertically into two or three parts that contains factual information about a place or organization.
What is a brochure?
1. Nature will exist even after mankind is extinct.
2. Technology can become very dangerous if we let it get too advanced.
These are possible ___________ for the science fiction texts that we read.
What is themes?
The subgenre of science fiction that emerged alongside personal computers in the early 1980s.
*Hint: The prefix is the same as the prefix for bullying someone online. The suffix is the same as the suffix in steampunk.
What is cyberpunk?
A science fiction subgenre in which advanced technologies are imagined to exist before electricity
What is steampunk?