Magic Realism Characteristics

Magic realism happens when

• Your dog answers you in Latin

• Wings sprouts on your back

• Your best buddy turns into a bug

• All the above

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Magic realist writers draw material from

• truth

• myths

• legends

• lies

Magic Realists tell stories that are

• fantastic

• matter-of-fact

• ridiculous

• all the above

Magic Realism does NOT include

• predictable and boring

• ordinary with the extraordinary

• silly and crazy

• mundane with the fastastic

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Works of magic realism are NOT novels or short stories

• True

• False

Time is

• linear

• skips forward

• loops back

• all the above

Magic Realists

• Mix unrelated ingredients

• Organize data logically

• Create hybridity

• Serve boring dishes

Surrealism does NOT include

• Blurring the lines between dream and reality

• Heads depicted as trees and vice versa

• Viewing reality in a novel way

• Rigid rules