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Mount St Benedict College Library: Year 9 Wide Reading

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What is Wide Reading?

Our Wide Reading Program plays a pivotal role in fostering a love for literature and nurturing well-rounded, informed individuals. The program offers you a diverse array of genres, styles, and perspectives that contribute to your intellectual and emotional growth.
Wide reading exposes you to a broad spectrum of ideas, cultures, and historical contexts. By engaging with literature from different eras and regions, you develop a richer understanding of the world and its complexities.

Accumulation

Definition of the narrative feature: A list or collection of words and phrases that have a similar meaning.

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Dialogue

Definition of the narrative feature: Presenting a spoken conversation between two or more characters within the narrative.

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Fable

 

Definition of the narrative feature: A short story, typically with animals as characters, that teaches a moral lesson.

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Genre Subversion

Definition of the narrative feature: A form of creative storytelling that twists, inverts, or breaks the rules of a genre.

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Legend

Definition of the narrative feature: A story based on historical events that have been passed down through generations; typically including mythology and folklore tales.

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Omission

Definition of the narrative feature: Leaving out of particular details that can be assumed by the reader.

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Polyphonic

Definition of the narrative feature: The use of multiple and distinct voices, perspectives, or narrative viewpoints within a story.

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Symbolism

 

Definition of the narrative feature: To provide more depth and significance to an idea through an object, action, situation, or character that represents a larger concept.

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Alliteration

Definition of the narrative feature: The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse.

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Duel Narrative

Definition of the narrative feature: A form of narrative that tells a story in two different perspectives, usually two different people.

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Flashback

 

Definition of the narrative feature: An interjection within a story that takes the narrative back in time.

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In Media Res Opening

Definition of the narrative feature: When a story opens with the character already in the middle of an action, literally meaning ‘in the midst of things’.

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Metafiction

Definition of the narrative feature: Explicitly shows its own constructedness, i.e., how the story was written or how the characters are aware of their fictionality or breaking the fourth wall.

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Pathetic Fallacy

Definition of the narrative feature: Attributing human characteristics and emtions to inanimate objects or to environmental elements

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Second Person Narration

Definition of the narrative feature: The reader is immersed into the narrative as a character involved in the story, utilising focalisation terms of ‘you’.

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Unreliable Narrator

Definition of the narrative feature: A narrator who misleads the responder; either deliberately or unknowingly.

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Anachronism

Definition of the narrative feature: Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.

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Epistolary

Definition of the narrative feature: Writing that is presented in the form of a letter or other written documents.

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Foreshadowing

Definition of the narrative feature: A narrative device in which a storyteller gives a hint of what is to come later in the story.

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Irony

 

Definition of the narrative feature: A literary device that contrasts expectations and reality, usually by utilising opposites for humorous .

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Microcosm

Definition of the narrative feature: A small component that is reflective of the larger narrative of theme; a part of the whole that reflects the bigger picture.

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Parable

Definition of the narrative feature: A short story that is used to illustrate a moral lesson or religious principle.

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Spatial Metaphor

Definition of the narrative feature: A metaphor grounded in the use of physical space, especially to further understand something that is not naturally bound in a space or location (e.g. their love was a maze and neither of them had the map to escape).

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Vignette

Definition of the narrative feature: A short slice or moment in a narrative that can elicit perceptions, opinions, beliefs and attitudes from responses or comments to stories depicting scenarios and situations.

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Cyclical Narrative Structure

Definition of the narrative feature: A narrative which either ends where it begins or begins at the end.

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Extended Metaphor

 

Definition of the narrative feature: When a writer compares unrelated objects or ideas with figurative language for more than a sentence. This literary device may be used throughout a paragraph, chapter, or even a complete work.

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Fragmented Narrative

 

Definition of the narrative feature: A novel made of fragments, vignettes, segments, documents or chapters that can be read in isolation and/or as part of the greater whole of the book.

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Juxtaposition

 

Definition of the narrative feature: When two concepts or objects are placed next to or near each other, thereby highlighting their innate differences and similarities.

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Monologue

Definition of the narrative feature: An extended speech given by one character.

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Personification

Definition of the narrative feature: The attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas, animals, the environment, non-living things etc.

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Stream of Consciousness

Definition of the narrative feature: Capturing the thoughts and emotions of the narrator in a fluid written style; includes train of thought and everyday observations.

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Vivid Sensory Imagery

 

Definition of the narrative feature: The use of descriptive language relating to the five senses to paint a mental image in the reader’s mind.

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