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Name six conventions of crime fiction:
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Crime, Sleuth Hero, detailed setting, clues/redherrings, denoument, restored social order.
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What is a red-herring?
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A red-herring is a clue that is discovered that often turns out to be misleading.
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What block is the school library in?
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J block.
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What is the chorus to the Veronicas song, "Hook Me Up"?
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Hook, hook me up, i wanna feel the rain in my hair,
Hook, hook me up. Where should we go? I don't even care. Anywhere is good enough. Hook me up, hook me up. |
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Define a detailed setting.
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A detailed setting is key to crime fiction because usually crime fiction offers social critique, meaning it criticises the society it is set in.
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What is the single defining feature of crime fiction?
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A crime!
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What is a Sleuth Hero?
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A Sleuth Hero is the detective. THey are usually the one that solves the crime. Usually the hero is an outsider to the society in which the crime is solved.
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What is a denoument?
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A denoument is the unknotting of the crime. A revelation of who committed the crime and how it was committed.
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