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Essential questions. daniellepiazza. Question 1: How do authors hook and hold readers? Authors hook and hold readers by starting of with a beginning hook that grabs the reader's attention by making it seem interesting and different from your ordinary classic book.

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  1. Essential questions daniellepiazza

  2. Question 1: How do authors hook and hold readers? Authors hook and hold readers by starting of with a beginning hook that grabs the reader's attention by making it seem interesting and different from your ordinary classic book. • Using a good dialogue, picking the right viewpoint that best fits your novel, setting, creativity of character (Hamilton) • Even a great message cannot stand alone on the merit of a title. There must also be something substantial to say, and it must be worded creatively and concisely. Keep these questions in mind. (Hedges) • Writers persuade their readers by having a really good story plot and not making it totally unrealistic. By using a lot of specific details makes the reader feel like their actually in the book and they can visualize clearly what's going on.

  3. Question2: What type of audience is attracted to the Fantasy novel most? • READERS: Fantasy fans do not differentiate between adult and youth fantasy, and the publishers often don’t either.  As many adults as teens read Eragon and Twilight, and both read and re-read children’s books. Anecdotally, readers are more female than male, though many reluctant boy readers are drawn in by vigorous adventure fantasy. Fantasy lovers are more willing to “read by the pound” than other genre fans, with hefty tomes and multi-volume series being common. ("Adult Reading Round Table ) • It can encompass a whirlwind of images and plot twists and is one of the few genres in which the same book can be read by an adult and a 12-year old - comfortably and without any explanation. ("Fantasy Fiction Genre)

  4. Question 3: What is the importance of the Fantasy genre? • Importance of Fantasy: • Reading Fantasy is not about escapism. It doesn’t teach magic to people. Fantasy is a genre to gain insights about being human or exploring the human soul by taking us out of the real world. In Fantasy, through the threats of sorrow and failure readers get a fleeting glimpse of joy and discover truths and an underlying reality. • Fantasy allows us to see the world with wonder, just like children.(Hamilton4) • Fantasy author and scholar Jane Yolen states the importance of Fantasy best: • "In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader’s horizons." • (Ledesma)

  5. Question 4: What truths are best communicated through the fantasy genre? • Truths are best communicated through the fantasy genre by using your imagination to think about and find out your thoughts about something. Usually, a lot of people use their imagination with events or time periods from millions of years ago because sometimes it is unknown what things were like. For example, millions of years ago there were no cameras, so the idea of what people wore back then could be part of your imagination along with how people acted and what society was like. • Usually told in third or first person (hamilton12) Fantasy stories can suggest universal truths through the use of magic and the supernatural. ("Children's Literature )

  6. Question 5: Are there different types of fantasy?There are 3 different ways that fantasy writers set up their worlds. • Some novels begin and end in a fantasy world. Others start in the real world and move into a fantasy world A third type of fantasy is set in the real world but elements of magic intrude upon it Realistic settings are often called primary worlds; fantasy settings, secondary worlds. ("Children's Literature Classics -- The Fantasy Genre ) • There are a bunch of subgenres involved in the fantasy novel. This includes Arthurian, Epic, Games, Fairy Tales, Historical, Magic and Mages, Not-quite-horror, Urban Fantasy(“Adult Reading Round ) • High Fantasy-Tales of midevil kingdoms battling evil forces. Filled with wizards, knights, kings and queens. • Adventure Fantasy-exciting adventures, sometimes called “sword and sorcery” stories. Smaller tales centered on fewer characters, but filled with barbarian hoards, dragons, and witches. • Fairy Tales- small but dramatic sotires that use magic and fantasy to teach moral lessons (Hamilton7)

  7. Question 6: What are the main points to writing a good fantasy book? • Another important aspect of the fantasy genre is that there is a good and evil character in every story that is normally having battle with the good guy; these are normally main characters and they do not have to be human so they could be animal or other. ("Characteristics of the Fantasy Genre Summary | BookRags.com." ) • One of the most important things of fantasy characteristics is that the main character (Leader) has a quest to find an object or something which could be treasure or for personal gain. ("Characteristics of the Fantasy Genre ) • The setting of the novel is an important factor to writing a fantasy novel. Also, having a good dialogued hero and villian is one of the main things that will make your novel good. Overall every little detail will make the book that much better than the others. (Hamilton,4-22)

  8. Question 7: What are popular themes for fantasy novels?Quests, both internal and external. • Struggles between good and evil, light and dark, or law and chaos. • Coming of age. • Heroism. Quests help the characters to grow as they strive for an object or ideal. The struggles between opposing forces are to achieve or restore balance to the world. Themes of heroism and coming of age bring about growth in characters. Other themes appear in Fantasy but these are the major ones. (Ledesma)

  9. Question 8: What is the significance of the Fantasy genre compared to others? • Science fiction stories also operate outside the normal boundaries of the real world but they are usually set in the future and involve the wonders of technology • Fairy tales are shorter than most fantasy works. Characters and settings lack specificity. Seldom are place names given or detailed descriptions of characters provided in fairy tales; nuances and subtleties of portrayal are deliberately ignored. (Children's Literature Classics ) • In a fantasy book, authors use their imagination to get the moral across. The truth part comes in in the sense that although it is fantasy and made-up, there is still a moral to every fantasy novel. • The major advantage of fantasy is that it can open up possibilities; it is not confined to the boundaries of the real world. • Fantasy submerges readers in worlds filled with elves, fairies, knights, dragons, and wizards. ( Hamilton4)

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