Lesson 3 Flashcards
type of art, literature, or music characterized by a
specific form, content, and style.
Genre
literature in the form of prose, especially short stories, and novels that describes imaginary events and people.
Fiction
a “slice of life” fictitious narrative.
Short story
fictitious narrative with a complicated plot
Novel
Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people such as biography or history.
Non-fiction
part of literary text.
Element
arrangement of and relations between the
parts or elements of something complex.
Structure
TRADITIONAL LITERARY GENRES
Fantasy
Fable
Fairytales
Myth
Legend
- 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.
Fantasy
- 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.
Fable
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.
Fairytales
- 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
Myth
- 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.
Legend
- 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.
Historical fiction
Non-Fiction
Essay
Biography
Autobiography
Letter
Diary
Journal
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.
Essay
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)
Biography
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.
Autobiography
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.
Letter
A daily written record account of the writer’s own experience,
thoughts, activities, or observations.
Diary
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.
21ST Century Literature
21ST CENTURY LITERARY GENRES
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
- 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.
Hyperpoetry
- 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.
TEXTULA
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.
ILLUSTRATED OR GRAPHIC NOVELS
