Conventional and 21st Century Genres

Question 1

is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound and rhythmic language choices to evoke an emotional response. It has been known to employ meter and rhyme. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define.

Answer 1

Poetry

Question 2

is a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict more contrast of character, especially on intended to be acted on a stage: a play. It may be any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting or striking interest.

Answer 2

Drama

Question 3

is literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature in the fiction include the novel, short story and novella.

Answer 3

fiction

Question 4

is based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject. The purpose of non-fiction writing is to inform and sometimes to persuade. Its examples are biographies, articles from textbooks and magazines and newspapers

Answer 4

Non fiction

Question 5

The Arrival by Shaun Tan. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Story through text and illustrated images

• 50% of the narrative is presented without words

• The reader must interpret the images to comprehend the story completely.

• Textual portions are presented in traditional form.

• Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all.

• Span all genres.

Answer 5

llustrated Novel

Question 6

Anthony Zuiker’s Level 26. Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek
Triple Media Literature
• Combines three media: book, movie/video and internet website
To get the full story, students must engage in navigation, reading, and viewing in all three forms.

Answer 6

Digi Fiction

Question 7

Archie Comics by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob Montana
Narrative in comic book formats
• Narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using a comic form.
• The term is employed in broadly manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across a number of genres.

Answer 7

Graphic Novel

Question 8

Japanese word for comics
• It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels originally published in Japan.
• Considered as an artistic and storytelling style.
• Ameri-manga- sometimes used to refer to comics created by American artists in manga style.

Answer 8

manga

Question 9

Literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle writing, drawings and handwritten graphics in place of the traditional font.
• Drawing enhances the story, often adding humorous elements

Answer 9

Doodle fiction

Question 10

Blogs, email and IM format narratives

• Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network

exchanges.

Answer 10

Text-talk novel

Question 11

Is genre fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly.

Chick Lit typically features a female protagonist whose femininity is heavily thermalizing in the plot.

Answer 11

CHICK LIT or CHICK LITERATURE

Question 12

Is a style of fictional literature of extreme brevity

• There is no widely accepted definition of the length and category. It could range from word to a thousand.

Answer 12

FLASH FICTION

Question 13

Also known as literary non-fiction or narrative non-fiction
• A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
• Contrasts with other non-fiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service to its craft.
• As a genre, creative non-fiction is still relatively young and is only beginning to be scrutinized with the same critical analysis given to fiction and poetry.

Answer 13

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Question 14

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.
• Often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations and has been called a “literature of ideas”.

Answer 14

SCIENCE FICTION

Question 15

A weblog, a website containing short articles called posts that are changed regularly.
• Some blogs are written by one person containing his or her own opinions, interests and experiences, while others are written by different people.

Answer 15

BLOG

Question 16

Digital poetry that uses links and hypertext mark-up
• It can either involved set words, phrases, lines, etc. that are presented in variable order but sit on the page much as traditional poetry does, or it can contain parts of the poem that move and transform.
• It is usually found online, through CD-ROM and diskette versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than the mid-1980’s

Answer 16

HYPER POETRY