Thrice Told Tales: Three Mice Full of Writing Advice PDF
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also by Postcards to Father Abraham Dry Fire illustrated by Joost Swarte ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 Text copyright © 2013 by Catherine Lewis Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Joost Swarte All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS is a registered trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Atheneum logo is a trademark of Simon & Schuser, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or [email protected]. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com. Book design by Debra Sfetsios-Conover The text for this book is set in Archer. The illustrations for this book are rendered in ink. Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lewis, Catherine. Thrice told tales / Catherine Lewis. — 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-4169-5784-3 ISBN 978-1-4424-6076-8 (eBook) 1. Literature—Terminology. 2. Authorship—Juvenile literature. I. Title. PN44.5.L438 2013 803—dc23 2012010644 Mus To all in captivity. May your days of suffering soon come to an end. _ C. L. To my youngest daughter, Loulou _ J. S. CONTENTS Story 1 Allegory 32 Plot 2 Epigram 33 Metafiction 3 Fairy Tale 34 The Lenses of Farce 36 Psychic Distance 4 F_ _K 38 Immediacy 5 Intertextuality 40 Irony 6 Keyboard Digression 41 Red Herring 8 Picaro 42 Suspension of Disbelief 10 Sex in the Story 43 Names 11 Revision 44 Leitmotif 12 Translation 46 Avant-Garde 13 Style 48 Cause and Effect 14 Premise 50 Stream of Consciousness 15 Flashback 52 Legend 16 Coincidence 53 Vocabulary and Syntax 18 Formula 54 Showing and Telling 20 Cliché 58 Dialogue 21 Sentence Diagram 59 Interior Monologue 22 Hero (Not) 60 Setting 23 Description 62 Sentimentality 24 Repetition 64 Title 26 Prologue 65 Mechanics 27 Unreliable Narrators 66 Transitions 28 Simile, Metaphor, Foreshadowing 29 and Conceit 68 Insertion 30 Frame Story 69 Detail 70 Archetype 101 Dialect, Ain’t It? 71 Oxymoron 102 Epistolary Novel 72 Structure 103 Diction 74 Tale 104 Symbolism 75 Short Short Story 105 Point of View 76 Character 106 Beginning 78 Character Presentation (Indirect Method) 107 Suspense 79 Character Presentation Stereotype 80 (Direct Method) 108 Exposition 81 Narrator 110 Research 82 Subplot 111 Deus ex Machina 85 Grotesque 112 Character 86 Science Fiction 113 Pathetic Fallacy 87 Humors 114 Bildungsroman 88 Tragedy 115 Denouement 89 Epilogue 116 Fable 90 Tour de Force 117 Parable 91 Introduction, Preface, Myth 92 Foreword 118 Mise-en-Scène 94 Appendix 121 Roman à Clef 95 Ambiguity 96 Verisimilitude 98 Catharsis 99 Allusion 100 Story Three blind mice ran after the farmer’s wife. She cut off their tails with a carving knife. : On the most basic level, a sequence of events. Snip of the Tale 1
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