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Verse Novels

Verse Novels. Globa l Genres. What is a Verse Novel?. A type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. . What is the History of the Verse N ovel?.

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Verse Novels

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  1. Verse Novels Global Genres

  2. What is a Verse Novel? • A type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose.

  3. What is the History of the Verse Novel? • Verse narratives are as old as the epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, and the Odyssey, but the verse novel is a distinct • How is a verse novel different from Paradise Lost or The Divine Comedy?

  4. What are the characteristics? • Written in free verse • Usually organized in a series of short sections • Uses changing perspectives • Told with multiple narrators • Provides readers with a cinematic view into the inner workings of the characters' minds.

  5. Characteristics Continued There will usually be • Dialogue • Narration • Description • Action in a novelistic manner

  6. Characteristics Continued • Creative use of punctuation and line breaks • White space

  7. Award Winners • Out of the Dust won the Newbury Medal in 1998 • ThanhhaLai won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for verse novel Inside Out & Back Again

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