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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Folktales | short story passed down orally throughout generations that typically evolves over time |
| climate fiction | literature that deals with climate change. generally falls under the umbrella of speculative fiction but is ispired by climate science. Works may take place in the world as we know it, in the near future, or fictional worlds experiencing climate change |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows more about a character than the character does, foreseeing an outcome contrary to the character's expectation, and thus ascribing a sharply different sense to the character's own statements |
| ecofeminism | examines the connections between woman and nature |
| literary fairy tale | a tale written by one author following the form of traditional fairy tales |
| didactic literature | something that is didactic instructs or provides information for a particular purpose |
| instruction and delight | children's literature that has a moral but also intends to be entertaining |
| episodic | constructed as a narrative of loosely connected incidents rather than by an integrated plot |
| picaresque novel | a rogue or a scoundral as the main character, usually recounted escapades in a first-person narractive marked by its episodic structure and realistic low-life (lower social class) descriptions. there is often little to no character development and humor |
| Romantic view of childhood | comes from theorists rousseau and lock; associates childhood with a state of purity, innocence (magic) because they think children are closer to nature and the natural world |
| binary opposition | the system of language or thought by which two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another |