WGU D688 Foundations of Literacy Through Literature: Key Terms
Flashcards - Questions with Correct Answers
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Units 1-3: Literature, Elements and Picture Books
ALA award for the most distinguished American children's book
1. Newbery Medal
(author).
ALA award for the most distinguished American picture book
2. Caldecott Medal
illustration.
3. Coretta Scott King Award Honors African American authors and illustrators.
4. Pura Belpré Award Honors Latino/Latina authors and illustrators.
Sequence of events: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action,
5. Plot
resolution.
6. Climax Turning point of highest tension.
7. Protagonist Main character.
8. Dynamic character Character who changes during the story.
9. Theme Central message or insight about life.
10. Third-person omniscient Narrator knows all characters' thoughts.
11. Personification Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
12. Wordless picture book Story told entirely through illustrations.
13. Concept book Teaches basic concepts such as ABCs or counting.
14. Visual literacy Ability to interpret and create meaning from images.
Units 4-7: Genres
15. Traditional literature Stories from oral tradition with no known original author.
16. Fable Short tale, often with animals, ending in a moral.
17. Myth Story explaining nature or origins, often with gods.
18. Legend Story about a historical figure, embellished over time.
19. Tall tale Humorous story with an exaggerated hero.
20. Pourquoi tale Explains why something in nature is the way it is.
21. Trickster tale Clever character outwits others (e.g., Anansi).
22. Modern fantasy Imaginative story with impossible elements and a known author.
23. High fantasy Set in a fully imagined secondary world.
24. Science fiction Story based on scientific possibilities or future technology.
Flashcards - Questions with Correct Answers
Fold the page down the middle: term on the left, answer on the right
Units 1-3: Literature, Elements and Picture Books
ALA award for the most distinguished American children's book
1. Newbery Medal
(author).
ALA award for the most distinguished American picture book
2. Caldecott Medal
illustration.
3. Coretta Scott King Award Honors African American authors and illustrators.
4. Pura Belpré Award Honors Latino/Latina authors and illustrators.
Sequence of events: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action,
5. Plot
resolution.
6. Climax Turning point of highest tension.
7. Protagonist Main character.
8. Dynamic character Character who changes during the story.
9. Theme Central message or insight about life.
10. Third-person omniscient Narrator knows all characters' thoughts.
11. Personification Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
12. Wordless picture book Story told entirely through illustrations.
13. Concept book Teaches basic concepts such as ABCs or counting.
14. Visual literacy Ability to interpret and create meaning from images.
Units 4-7: Genres
15. Traditional literature Stories from oral tradition with no known original author.
16. Fable Short tale, often with animals, ending in a moral.
17. Myth Story explaining nature or origins, often with gods.
18. Legend Story about a historical figure, embellished over time.
19. Tall tale Humorous story with an exaggerated hero.
20. Pourquoi tale Explains why something in nature is the way it is.
21. Trickster tale Clever character outwits others (e.g., Anansi).
22. Modern fantasy Imaginative story with impossible elements and a known author.
23. High fantasy Set in a fully imagined secondary world.
24. Science fiction Story based on scientific possibilities or future technology.
