Thursday, October 20, 2011

What's the difference?


By: Amir Mubarak

A couple of weeks ago Mr. AB showed us this exact same video during class. We were considering and talking about the differences and similarities of non-fiction as opposed to fiction. Hence, the video above. I'm sure many of you have seen or read non-fiction as well as fiction. According to dictionary.reference.com, fiction is defined as, "the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration especially in prose form." However, non-fiction is defined as, "the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality , including biography, history, and the essay." Watch the video above - and, in your opinion - tell me in what category does this fall in? Fiction, or non-fiction? What's the difference between non-fiction and fiction? Their similarities?

7 comments:

  1. Well, this video is interesting. When I was watching this video, I couldn't tell whether it was non-fiction or fiction. Then I realized that maybe a story can be both. I mean there are people who guess things that are in a box and people who like cookies. But there is no such thing as a cookie monster and a frog that talks.

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  2. This video is so funny!!! the funniest part was when the cookie monster was said that the round thing that was an orange was a cookie!!!

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  3. The video was really funny, and I agree with what Mr.AB said that Gio is the cookie monster. The most funniest parts was the part when the frog snaps and also the part were the monster is given a speech. After seeing the video, I think that this video is fiction, but as Arige said it can lean to either non-fiction or fiction.

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  4. I would say this video is mostly fiction. i say this because the clues that the frog gives are facts about the object that is being hidden. I like the speech of the Cookie Monster because it is pretty persuasive. I might start doing this with my mother so that I can get what I want... Also this video was pretty funny.

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  5. Mr. AB said I remind him of the cookie monster. For one thing I hate chocolate cookies. Second I do not talk like that. While I am doing this Nicole has slight rage tantrums just like Kermit. Lastly this video was very funny because it showed a soft side to cookie monster that I never saw before.

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  6. Me to Gio i prefer sugar cookies by alot but if someone gives me a chocolate chip cookie......... Don't mind if i do

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  7. haha Nicole, I think you mean Dania.

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