Just before the holidays, we started a new session about the pastiche and the parody. In french the title is "Le je de l'écrivain et le jeu de l'écriture". To start, we learnt some definitions : 

* An autobiography is a text in which the author is the narrator and he/she tells his/her own story.

* A first person narrative is a text in which one of the characters is the narrator.

* A third person narrative is a text in which the narrator is outside the story.

We spoke about the games that authors use in their novels : they play with words (they can invent words), they play with with homophones (I/eye), they play with setting of the text (acrostyches), they can write distorted texts, parodies or pastiches. 

And we are going to discover all this in our new sequence!