What is Fantasy?
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Objective
I can define the characteristics of the fantasy genre.
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Warm-up video
Molding Minds · 5:24
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Key concepts
3 concepts
- 1
A fiction genre called fantasy includes wizards, dragons, unicorns, elves, and other unreal things.
- 2
Fantasy stories often take place in a made-up universe or a made-up version of the real world with new rules, and strange things happen because of magic.
- 3
Modern fantasy differs from traditional fantasy because it has a real, known author, unlike myths and legends that were shared by people long ago.
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Practice
3 questions
Which of the following is a key characteristic of the fantasy genre?
Fantasy stories often include:
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“Name 3 characteristics of the fantasy genre.”
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