M2: Lesson 1: Conventional and 21st Century Genres Flashcards
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.
21st century literature
They are capable of navigating and interpreting digital formats and media messages.
They possess 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.
21st century readers
An imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices to evoke an emotional response.
Known to employ meter and rhyme
The very nature of ____ as an _____ and ______ makes it nearly impossible to define.
Poetry
Authentic
Individual mode of expression
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 ____.
It may be any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting or striking interest.
Drama
Play
Literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation.
TYPES
Novel, short story, novella
Fiction
Based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject
The purpose of ____ writing is to inform and sometimes to persuade.
EXAMPLES
Biographies, articles from textbooks, magazines, newspapers
Nonfiction
Story or narrative told through words complemented by illustrated images
50% of the narrative is presented without words while some may not contain any text at all, so the reader must interpret the images to comprehend the story completely.
EXAMPLES
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Illustrated novel
A.K.A Triple Media Literature
It uses the combination of three media: book, movie/video, and internet website to tell a narrative, so readers must engage in navigating, reading, and viewing in all three forms to comprehend the full story.
EXAMPLES
Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman
Level 26 by Anthony Zuiker
Digi-fiction
Digi-fiction or
Triple media literature
Digi-fiction is combination of three medias
Books, movie/video, internet website
Narratives told in comic-strip formats and published as a book
The term is employed in a broad manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across several genres.
Tell a story using a combination of words and pictures in a sequence across the page
EXAMPLES
Archie Comics by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob Montana
The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin
Graphic novels
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.
Manga
Manga-style comics created by American artists
Ameri-manga
Categories of manga
Shonen-Boy’s Manga (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece)
Shojo-Girl’s Manga (Sailormoon)
Seinen-Men’s Manga (Akira)
Josei-Women’s Manga (Loveless, Paradise Kiss)
Kodomo-Children’s Manga (Doraemon, Hello Kitty)
A literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle writing, drawings, and handwritten graphics in place of the traditional font.
EXAMPLES
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis
Doodle fiction
Simple drawings or random shapes and lines that may or may not have concrete representational meanings.
Enhance the story, often adding humorous elements
Doodles
Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchanges
Narratives are usually presented in blog, email, and IM (instant messaging) format.
EXAMPLES
Jenny Ruth Almocera’s Vince and Kath released by ABS-CBN publishing
Text-talk novels
An often humorous and lighthearted fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood.
Stories may include romantic relationships, friendships, and issues in the workplace.
It generally targets young women readers.
EXAMPLES
The Night before Christmas by Scarlet Bailey
It Started with a Kiss by Miranda Dickinson
Chick lit or chick literature
Story narrated in an extremely brief way, but still offers plot and character development and implies a larger story.
It could range from a word to a thousand.
EXAMPLES (SIX-WORD STORIES)
For sale: Baby Socks, Never Worn by Ernest Hemingway
Longed for him. Got him, Shit. by Margaret Atwood
Flash fiction
Flash fiction categories
Six-word stories (6 words)
Dribble or minisaga (50 words)
280-character story or twitterrature (280 words or a story in one tweet)
Drabble or microfiction (100 words)
Sudden fiction (750 words)
Flash fiction (1,000 words)
A.K.A literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction
It is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
In contrast with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, it is not primarily written in service to its craft.
Still relatively young and is only beginning to be scrutinized with the same critical analysis given to fiction and poetry.
EXAMPLES
1000 Gifts by Ann Voscamp
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction or
Literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction
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 extraterrestrial life.
It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations and has been called a “literature of ideas”.
EXAMPLES
Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay
Sarah Maas’ Kingdom of Ash
Science fiction
Shortened word of Weblog
A website containing short articles called POSTS that are updated regularly.
Some ____ are written by one person containing his or her own opinions, interests and experiences, while others are written by different people.
EXAMPLES
Kryz Uy’s Break My Style, which includes stories of her travels and style is one of the most followed ______ in the country.
Blog
Digital poetry that uses links and hypertext mark-up
It can either involve a set of 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, but CD-ROM and diskette versions exist.
The earliest examples date to no later than the mid-1980s.
Hyper poetry
Example of illustrated novel
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Example of digi-fiction
Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman
Level 26 by Anthony Zuiker
Example of graphic novels
Archie Comics by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob Montana
The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin
Example of doodle fiction
The diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney
Timmy failure by stephan pastis
Example of text-talk novels
Vince and Kath by Jenny Ruth Almocera
Example of chick lit
The Night before Christmas by Scarlet Bailey
It Started with a Kiss by Miranda Dickinson
Example of flash fiction
For sale: Baby Socks, Never Worn by Ernest Hemingway
Longed for him. Got him, Shit. by Margaret Atwood
Example of creative nonfiction
1000 Gifts by Ann Voscamp
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Example of science fiction
Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay
Sarah Maas’ Kingdom of Ash
Example of blog
Kryz Uy’s Break My Style
