How do Sports Fiction authors hook and hold readers? A way they hook and hold readers is by starting...

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How do Sports Fiction authors hook and hold readers? A way they hook and hold readers is by starting the books off in an intense game, with about 1 minute to go and the game is tied leaving the readers at suspense.

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Page 1: How do Sports Fiction authors hook and hold readers? A way they hook and hold readers is by starting the books off in an intense game, with about 1 minute.

How do Sports Fiction authors hook and hold readers?

A way they hook and hold readers is by starting the books off in an intense game, with

about 1 minute to go and the game is tied leaving the readers at suspense.

Page 2: How do Sports Fiction authors hook and hold readers? A way they hook and hold readers is by starting the books off in an intense game, with about 1 minute.

How do Sports Fiction writers persuade their readers?

• They can persuade their readers by giving statistics of professional teams if the book is an informational book, if it’s a story they can give the emotion to the reader that the characters are feeling by making it seem like the readers are actually watching the game.

Page 3: How do Sports Fiction authors hook and hold readers? A way they hook and hold readers is by starting the books off in an intense game, with about 1 minute.

What is the relationship between Sports Fiction and truth?

• There is no difference in Sports Fiction and truth.• The actuality of Sports Fiction is that it’s the same emotions that you would

feel in an actual sport.

Page 4: How do Sports Fiction authors hook and hold readers? A way they hook and hold readers is by starting the books off in an intense game, with about 1 minute.

What truths are best communicated through the Sports Fiction genre?

• Sports Fiction gives you a good perspective of the feelings and attitude in a certain sport just like you would in real life. (Coy) (Lupica)

Page 5: How do Sports Fiction authors hook and hold readers? A way they hook and hold readers is by starting the books off in an intense game, with about 1 minute.

Do the authors of Sports Fiction make you feel the same emotions

the characters in the book do?

• The authors somehow give the text the same emotion as the players do, if they feel tension or nervousness, you do as well. (Coy) (Lupica)

Page 6: How do Sports Fiction authors hook and hold readers? A way they hook and hold readers is by starting the books off in an intense game, with about 1 minute.

What is Sports Fiction in detail?

• Sports Fiction is usually about a specific sport that takes you through the whole season, showing the life of an athlete of a teenager or adult. (Coy) (Lupica)

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What types of people would read Sports Fiction?

• People who have had past experiences in sports, and are into the sport would understand the feelings and emotions that are put in the book.

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Statistically, is Sports Fiction a popular genre?

• Statistically, Sports Fiction is not a popular genre, Romance novels and Science Fiction/Fantasy novels are the most popular in this time period. (Genre Sales Statistics)