Genres

Melleny Franklin 9/26/05

Rosenwald School Rm. 211 Gr.8

Reading Research Report

Poetry:

Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define. Some of my favorite poets are Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, and Edgar Allan Poe. I really enjoy reading their poems.

For example, one of my most favorite poems by Edgar Allan Poe is entitled "To Helen".

Science Fiction:

Sci- Fi is a type of narrative about or based upon real or imagined scientific theories and technology. Science fiction is often peopled with alien creatures and set on other planets or in different dimensions. It can also be imaginary writing based on current or projected scientific and technological developments. I like to watch Sci-Fi movies on the Sci-Fi television channel. Some of my favorite Sci-Fi movies are Jurassic Park, Eight Legged Freaks, and Mars Attacks. Out of all three, my favorite is Jurassic Park.

Historical Fiction:

Historical Fiction is the works in which the characters are fictional, but the setting and other details are rooted in actual history. This genre are stories set in the past and try to recreate the aura of a time past, reconstruct characters, events, movements, ways of life and spirit of days gone by. Some examples of historical fiction stories are Gary Paulsen's "Night john", Lois Lawry's "Number the Stars", and Mark Twain's "Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Out of all of the above, My most favorite is Lois Lowry's book. Her book is about a ten-year-old girl named Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often thinking about life before the war. But then its 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in their town.

Myth:

A myth is often thought to be a lesson in story form which has deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for preliterate cultures, who preserve and cherish the wisdom of their elders through oral traditions by the use of skilled story tellers. Myths are also stories that are passed on from generation to generation. Most myths were first spread by oral tradition and then were written down in some literary form. Oftentimes, myths tell of the deeds of supernatural beings and are set in a time prior to recorded history. Many ancient literary works are, in fact, myths as myths appear in every ancient culture of the planet. An example of a myth is Greek Mythology. Two of the most familiar Greek Mythology stories I know are "Jason and the Golden Fleece" and "Zeus and Hera".

Legend:

A legend is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and passive participants, includes no happenings that are outside the realm of "possibility", defined by a highly flexible set of parameters, which may include miracles that are perceived as actually having happened, within the specific tradition. They are depictions of real facts or characters accepted by almost everyone but distorted or amplified by imagination or biases. For example, a few legends are The Legend of Zelda, Robin Hood, and King Arthur. I like the Legend of Zelda.

Fable:

In its strict sense, a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. "Fable" comes from Latin fabula and shares a root with faber,