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What happens when fiction writers don’t follow the rules?

Objectives

Students will:

  1. Describe approaches to fiction that combine elements of different genres.
  2. Analyze a short story that crosses genres, breaking the rules of one genre to include elements of another.
  3. Analyze the meaning of surreal or magical elements in a literary short story.

Skills Needed

Students must be able to:

  1. Identify the basic rules of narrative/fiction writing.
  2. Define and describe examples of literary genre.
  3. Identify and interpret symbols in a work of literature.