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Lesson 2. Conventional and 21st Century Literature Flashcards

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refers to new literary work created within the
last decade. It is written by contemporary authors which may deal
with current themes/ issues and reflects a technological culture. It
often breaks traditional writing rules.

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21st Century Literature

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grew up using technology as a primary
learning tool. He is capable of navigating and interpreting digital
formats and media messages. He also possesses literacy skills, which
include technological abilities such as keyboarding, internet
navigation, interpretation of technological speak, ability to
communicate and interpret coded language and decipher graphics.

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21st Century Reader

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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.

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Poetry

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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.

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Drama

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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.

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Fiction

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

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Non-Fiction

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  • 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
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Illustrated Novel

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8
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret and The Arrival

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examples of illustrated novel

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  • 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
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DIGI-FICTION

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Skeleton Creek and Level 26

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examples of digi-fiction

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  • 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.
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Graphic Novel

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12
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Archie Comics

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examples of graphic novels

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  • 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.
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Manga

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sometimes used to refer to comics created by American
artists in manga style.

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Ameri-manga

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Boy’s Manga (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece)

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Shonen

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Girl’s Manga (Sailormoon)

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Shojo

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Men’s Manga (Akira)

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Seinen

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Women’s Manga (Loveless, Paradise Kiss)

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Josei

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Children’s Manga (Doraemon, Hello Kitty)

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Kodomo

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  • 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
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Doodle Fiction

21
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The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Timmy Failure

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examples of doodle ficton

22
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  • Blogs, email and IM format narratives
  • Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network
    exchanges.
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Text-Talk Novels

23
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  • 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.
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Chick Lit or Chick Literature

24
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The night before Christmas and It started with a Kiss

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examples of chick lit

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  • 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.
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Flash Fiction

26
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  • For sale: baby socks, never worn.
  • Longed for him. Got him, Shit.
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examples of six-word flash fiction

27
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who wrote
For sale: baby socks, never worn.

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Ernest Hemingway

28
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who wrote
Longed for him. Got him, Shit.

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Margaret Atwood

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  • 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.
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Creative Non-Fiction

30
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1000 Gifts and Wind, Sand, and Stars

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examples of creative non-fiction

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  • 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”.
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Science Fiction

32
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Mockingjay and Kingdom of Ash

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examples of science fiction

33
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  • 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.
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Blog

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  • 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.
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Hyper Poetry

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