Lesson 3

Question 1

type of art, literature, or music characterized by a
specific form, content, and style.

Answer 1

Genre

Question 2

literature in the form of prose, especially short stories, and novels that describes imaginary events and people.

Answer 2

Fiction

Question 3

a “slice of life” fictitious narrative.

Answer 3

Short story

Question 4

fictitious narrative with a complicated plot

Answer 4

Novel

Question 5

Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people such as biography or history.

Answer 5

Non-fiction

Question 6

part of literary text.

Answer 6

Element

Question 7

arrangement of and relations between the
parts or elements of something complex.

Answer 7

Structure

Question 8

TRADITIONAL LITERARY GENRES

Answer 8

Fantasy
Fable
Fairytales
Myth
Legend

Question 9

• In a place that does not exist in the
  real world
• Events occur that could not happen in
  the real world.
• People, animal or objects are able to do
  things they cannot do in real world.

Answer 9

Fantasy

Question 10

• In the distant past or timeless place
• Very short which usually has only 2 or 3 characters.
  -Often are animals, or things that talk
  and act like humans.

Answer 10

Fable

Question 11

A difficult, sometimes seemingly
impossible problem to solve. Often
with magical powers, imaginary
characters such as dragons, fairies,
giants, royal characters etc. The
granting of wishes often occurs. Has
a happy ending in which good wins
over evil.

Answer 11

Fairytales

Question 12

• In the recent or distant past
• May explain how something in nature
  looks or works, or why people behave
  in certain ways. Often includes gods,
  or goddesses who interact with
  humans

Answer 12

Myth

Question 13

• In the past Tells a story of a hero.
• Maybe based on facts or real history but through retellings the hero and his deeds
  became larger than life, some facts are
  distorted.

Answer 13

Legend

Question 14

• Some specific period of the past A type of realistic fiction.
• Sometimes the story is based on actual historical events and people of the period. The
  plot reflects events or problems of the
  period.

Answer 14

Historical fiction

Question 15

Non-Fiction

Answer 15

Essay
Biography
Autobiography
Letter
Diary
Journal

Question 16

Short literary composition which is expository in nature.
The author shares his thoughts, feelings, experiences, or
observations on some aspects of life that have interested him.

Answer 16

Essay

Question 17

The true story of someone’s life written by someone else.
An account of a person’s entire life that is almost told in
chronological order (in the time order or events occurred)

Answer 17

Biography

Question 18

True story of someone’s life written by the person itself.
Contains a variety of important information about the person’s life
(in the time order or events occurred.

Answer 18

Autobiography

Question 19

A written message which displays aspects of an author’s
psychological make-up not immediately apparent in his more public
writings. It is a prose form which by the force of its style and the
importance of its statement becomes an object of interest.

Answer 19

Letter

Question 20

A daily written record account of the writer’s own experience,
thoughts, activities, or observations.

Answer 20

Diary

Question 21

new literary work created within the last decade. These were written by
contemporary authors and deal with current themes or issues which reflect a technological culture that
often breaks traditional writing rules.

Answer 21

21ST Century Literature

Question 22

21ST CENTURY LITERARY GENRES

Answer 22

HYPERPOETRY
TEXTULA
ILLUSTRATED OR GRAPHIC NOVELS
DIGI-FICTION
FLASH FICTION
DOODLE FICTION
BLOGS, EMAIL, INSTANT MESSAGING NOVELS
CHICKLIT
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
SPOKEN WORD POETRY
SPECULATIVE FICTION

Question 23

• also called cyber poetry
• could not be presented without the computer
• verse with links to sub-poems or footnotes, poetry “generators,” poetry with movement
  or images.
• Some readers of HP relate hyper poetry to concrete poetry (in which meaning is conveyed partly by the shape formed by the letters and words), prose, poetry, hip-hop, performance art, and other types of “hybrid” arts.

Answer 23

Hyperpoetry

Question 24

• Mobile phone poetry, using short traditional formal verses like tanaga which has a 7777 syllable
  count with rhyme scheme aabb, abab, abba.
• a poetry genre mastered by FRANK RIVERA.
• Entire poems are written and read on mobile phones.

Answer 24

TEXTULA

Question 25

Textual portions are presented in traditional form
 Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all
 a longer work or collection of works presented in ‘comics’ style.
 A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using comic form.
 The term is employed in a broad manner, encompassing non fiction works and thematically linked
short stories as well as fictional stories across a number of genres.

Answer 25

ILLUSTRATED OR GRAPHIC NOVELS