I can't figure out how to explain.Thanks
2007-02-14 10:21:08 · 17 answers · asked by redhead 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Yikes! 6 is awfully young to be learning about "genre." My 9-year-old daughter just learned that and I'm pretty sure I didn't learn it until middle-school.
Tell her: Love stories are one type of genre. Cowboy stories are another. Funny stories are another. Mysterious stories are another. Just use terms she'll understand.
2007-02-14 10:24:55 · answer #1 · answered by §Sally§ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The scope of the word "genre" is usually confined to art and culture, particularly literature. In genre studies the concept of genre is not compared to originality. Rather, all works are recognized as either reflecting on or participating in the conventions of genre.
Genres are often divided into subgenres. Literature, for instance, can be organized according to the "poetic genres" and the "prose genres". Poetry might then be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic. Further subdivisions of dramatic poetry might include comedy, tragedy, melodrama, while comedy itself has subgenres, including farce, comedy of manners, burlesque, satire, and so on. However, any of these terms would be called "genre", and its possible more general terms inplied.
2007-02-14 10:26:09 · answer #2 · answered by Joannie W 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Describe a genre is a type of catagory, or group in which they place common topics or ideas.
Say she was reading about Fairies, and then she was reading about School Teachers. Well, those are two very different things and would be put in two different 'Genre' or cataorgies.
2007-02-14 10:23:55 · answer #3 · answered by jprofitt303 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Describe it like in music. For instance, rock is a genre, jazz is a genre, classical is a genre. She may understand that a little better.
2007-02-14 10:25:10 · answer #4 · answered by butterfliesRfree 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
tell her that a genre is like a club that a book is part of. so, all the fables are part of the Fiction club, or genre, et al. my four year old son grasped this concept about three weeks ago.
2007-02-14 10:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by grishkafool 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The best way would be to say its the different types of books. Or you could say the different categories of books.
2007-02-14 10:25:19 · answer #6 · answered by Acorn 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A genre is what kind of book something is...science fiction, biography, historical, fairy tale, etc.
A genre is to a book what a flavor is to candy...butterscotch,chocolate, pepperment...
See how many other flavors or genre's she can name.
2007-02-14 10:25:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
tell her that gere means diffrent kinds, like colors, black and green are diffrent, but they still do the same thing, just like books, the dairy of ann frank tell a story of a Jewish girl, and there are other books that tell the same story, just its not the same person
2007-02-14 10:27:10 · answer #8 · answered by loveyourself098 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
genre is the classification of what type of material your reading
romance story is romance, mystery is mystery, horror is horror, etc
here's a site I looked up might help some to look there
http://www.todaysteacher.com/LiteratureGenreList.htm
2007-02-14 11:03:10 · answer #9 · answered by Wendy C 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
OK.
"Genre is what the book is about. Like if it were about pirates it would be Action, or if it were about knights it would be Fantasy."
Good Luck!
AN
2007-02-14 10:24:43 · answer #10 · answered by Armchair_Ninja 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋