Literary Genres Flashcards
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.
illustrated novel
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.
DIGI fiction
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.
graphic novel
Japanese word for comic published in Japan, artistic and storytelling style
manga
incorporates doodle writing drawings and handwriting graphics
Doodle Fiction
Blogs, email and IM format narratives. Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchanges.
Text talk novel
Is a fiction genre which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and light-heartedly. Chick Lit typically features a female protagonist whose femininity is heavily thermalizing in the plot.
Chick Lit
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.
flash fiction
A story told in six words
Six word flash fiction
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.
Creative non fiction
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.
blog
A super genre, an umbrella term for genre fiction
speculative fiction
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
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.
hyper poetry
Fiction written for readers 12- 18 years of age(adolescents) and even early twenties to thirties. The young adult stage in human development precedes middle adulthood according to Erick Erikson’s stage of human development.
young adult