21ST CENTURY LIT. Flashcards
It is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as
futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel,
a parallel universe and extra-terrestrial life.
SCIENCE FICTION
A literary genre which combines three media: book, movie/video and internet website.
DIGI-FICTION
A literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle writing and
drawings and handwritten graphics in place of the traditional font Spanish Period.
DOODLE FICTION
It is a genre fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often
humorously and lightheartedly.
CHICK LIT
Stories told almost entirely in dialogue, simulating social network exchanges.
TEXT-TALK NOVEL
It is a website that contains short articles posted and changed regularly.
BLOG
Digital literature that uses links and includes parts that move or mutate.
HYPER POETRY
It is a comic book or book series published in Japan.
MANGA
39 Clues book series by Scholastic, where stories are told using the combination of
book, video, and website, is an example of this literary Genre
DIGI-FICTION
Stories characterized by their brevity. It could range from a word to a thousand.
FLASH FICTION
Narrative work in which a story is told using a comic form.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Mashable by Pete Cashmore, where feature stories around the world are posted
and updated, is an example of this literary genre.
BLOG
A story that develops through a screenshot of SMS conversation like Vince and
Kath by Jenny Ruth Almocera is an example of this literary genre.
TEXT-TALK NOVEL
A story that uses literary techniques to create accurate narratives like travel and
nature stories in Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places is an example of this literary
genre.
CREATIVE NONFICTION
The Hunger Games series that explores dystopian or postapocalyptic themes is an
example of this literary genre.
SCIENCE FICTION
literature that is commercially available
through normal distribution channels.
CONVENTIONAL
contemporary times/current century in the Anno
Domini era or Common Era, under the Gregorian
calendar.
21ST CENTURY
category of literature
LITERARY GENRES
What are the four conventional
literary genres?
POETRY, DRAMA, FICTION,NONFICTION
imaginative awareness of
experience expressed through meaning, sound
and rhythmic language choices to evoke
emotional response employing meter and
rhyme.
POETRY
- New
- Innovative
- Technology
21ST CENTURY/CONTEMPORARY
prose / verse presenting in dialogue
or pantomime a story acted on a stage
DRAMA
created from the imagination, not presented as
fact in story telling (e.g. novel, short story, novella)
FICTION
based on facts and the author’s opinion
about a subject with the intention to inform and persuade
(e.g. biographies, articles from textbooks, magazines and
newspapers)
NON-FICTION
Purpose of non-fiction
INFORM AND PERSUADE
Narrative in comic book formats
Employed in a broad manner,
encompassing non-fiction works and
thematically linked short stories and
fictional stories across a number of genres.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Extended narrative with multiple images
together with the text to produce meaning.
ILLUSTRATIVE NOVEL
a style of fictional literature
extreme brevity/very short story
FLASH FICTION
an extreme offshoot of flash fiction
that does exactly what it says on the
tin.
SIX-WORD FICTION
Expresses the norms or code of behavior, community beliefs or they instill values by offering nuggets of wisdom in short, rhyming verse.
APHORISMS
Extended form of aphorism, a mono-rhyming heptasyllabic quatrain
TANAGA
Any concise expression that is especially memorable because of its meaning or style.
SAYING
