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Picture Books (Dual audience - pre literate & proficient reader)
- Color - imply & inculcate emotion, direct the eye
- Line - imply & inculcate emotion, direct the eye
- zigzag - chaos or anger, curve - maternal or comfort, horizontal - rest, vertical - same or rigor, diagonal - change
- Medium - the set of materials used to make an image
- Media - paint, collage, pencil, charcoal, paper canvas, computer, etc
- texture - rough, smooth
- Style - tradition or techniques in w/c the media are used to create the image or the way the medium is use
- abstract, realistic, cartoon, impressionism, cubism, pointillism, naive
- Shapes - how the objects are drawn
- circle or oval - safety, comfort or change, triangle - stability or consistency, inverted triangle - change or instability, square - static, motionless or authority
- Repetition - Structural = events & sequences that repeat w/ minor changes
- - Verbal/Visual = phrases & images that repeat
- Layout - how the picture are put on paper and the framing
- Sound - can reflect how the book is going or how the plot is turning
- Setting - where the story takes place ans what does it say about the book
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Novel
- Point of view - Where the camera is and how closely does it focus
- 1st person - told in I, 2nd person - told in you, 3rd person - told in he or she
- Character Arc - the moral or personal path a character chooses across diff. scenes
- Motif - a specific phrase, image or action that runs/recurs in the book or will take almost exactly the same form each time
- Theme - an idea that is expressed in diff. ways in the book or point the central idea.
- Allusion - when the text points the readers attention to a text outside itself
- Characterization - Rounded = fully developed, avoid stereotype, has innate contradiction, surprises
- - Dynamic = changes over the course of the book
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Easy Readers
- Repetition - Emphasize a critical point, help with the reading
- Vocabulary - has to be accessible, lively
- Illustration - support the meaning all about the reading, they match the words
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Non-fiction
- Setting - often set in a real place
- Clarity of terms - has engaging ways to present & repeat key terminology
- Intuitive apparatus - such as notes, bibliography, indes, glossary, etc
- Critical structure - emphasizes the process of testing & re-evaluating knowledge
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