Children's literature

Children's literature (or juvenile literature) includes stories, books, and poems that are enjoyed by children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.

Picture books

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil, among others. Two of the earliest books with something like the format picture books still retain now were Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter from 1845 and Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit from 1902.

Fairy tales

A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.

Fables

Fable is a literary genre. A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

Literary realism

Literary realism is the trend, beginning with mid nineteenth-century literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors, toward depictions of contemporary life and society as it was, or is. In the spirit of general "realism," realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation.

單字比較

1.juvenile /ˈdʒu.vən.aɪl/ (a.)

   Definition: relating to a young person who is not yet old enough to an adult

   rejuvenate /rɪˋdʒuvənet/ (v.)

2.confirm /kənˈfɝm/ (v.)

  Definition: to make an arrangement or meeting certain,often by phone or writing

confirmation /ˌkan.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/ (n.)

  Definition: It is a rite of initiation in several Christian denomitations

*新單字

1.puberty  /ˈpju.bɚ.ti/ (n.)

  Definition:the stage in a person's life when they develop from a child into an adult because of changes in their body that make them able to have children

2.didacticism /diˈdak.tism/ (n.)

  Definition: It is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art.

*di- "一分為二"的意思

*ob- "逆著.反對.過度.覆蓋"的意思 Ex.obscure.obstacle.object.obesity.obscene