21st Century Literaty Genre
21st Century Literaty Genre
21st Century Literaty Genre
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LITERARY GENRES
WHAT IS GENRE?
ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
• 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
DIGI-FICTION
• 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.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
• Narrative in comic book formats
• Narrative work in which the story
is conveyed to the reader using a
comic form.
MANGA
• 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.
• Shonen- Boy’s Manga (Naruto, Hunter x
Hunter, 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)
DOODLE FICTION
• 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
TEXT-TALK NOVELS
• Blogs, email and IM format narratives
• Stories told almost entirely in dialogue
simulating social network exchanges
CHICK LIT OR CHICK
LITERATURE
• 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.
FLASH FICTION
• 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.
CREATIVE NON-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.
SCIENCE 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.
BLOG
• 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.