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Conventional and 21st

Century Genres
Specific Objectives:
1. differentiate the 21st century literary genres, and the
one’s from the original genres;
2. enumerate the elements, structures and traditions of
each genre;
3. appreciate the unique features of each genre.
Conventional and 21st
Century Genres
21st Century Literature:
21st Century Literature refers to 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. It often
breaks traditional writing rules.
Conventional and 21st
Century Genres
21st Century Reader:
A 21st Century Reader grew up using technology as a
primary learning tool. He is capable of navigating and
interpreting digital formats and media messages. He also
possesses 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.
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Century Genres
Major Literary Genres:
1. POETRY
It is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed
through meaning, sound and rhythmic language choices to evoke
an emotional response. It has been known to employ meter and
rhyme. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual
mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define.
Conventional and 21st
Century Genres
2. DRAMA
It is 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 play. It
may be any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional,
conflicting or striking interest.
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Century Genres
3. FICTION
It is literature created from the imagination, not presented as
fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of
literature in the fiction include the novel, short story and novella.
4. NON-FICTION
It is based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject.
The purpose of non-fiction writing is to inform and sometimes to
persuade. Its examples are biographies, articles from textbooks
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Century Genres
21st Century Literature Genres
1. 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.
• Textual portions are presented in traditional form.
• Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all.
• Span all genres.
• Examples include The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and The
Arrival by Shaun Tan.
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Century Genres
2. 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.
• Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek and Anthony Zuiker’s
Level 26 are examples.
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Century Genres
3. GRAPHIC NOVEL
• 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.
• Archie Comics by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob
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Century Genres
4. 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.
• Considered as an artistic and storytelling style.
• Ameri-manga- sometimes used to refer to comics created by American artists in manga
style.
• 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)
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Century Genres
5. 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
• Examples include The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff
Kinney and Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis.
Conventional and 21st
Century Genres
6. TEXT-TALK NOVELS
• Blogs, email and IM format narratives
• Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network
exchanges.
7. 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.
• Scarlet Bailey’s The night before Christmas and Miranda Dickinson’s It
Conventional and 21st
Century Genres
8. 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.
9. SIX-WORD FLASH FICTION
• Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby socks, never worn.
• Margaret Atwood: Longed for him. Got him, Shit.
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Century Genres
10. 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.
• As a genre, creative non-fiction is still relatively young and is only beginning to
be scrutinized with the same critical analysis given to fiction and poetry.
• 1000 Gifts by Ann Voscamp and Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-
Exupery are examples.
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Century Genres
11. 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.
• Often explores the potential consequences of scientific and
other innovations and has been called a “literature of ideas”.
• Examples include Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay and Sarah
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Century Genres
12. 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.
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Century Genres
13. HYPER POETRY
• 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.
• It is usually found online, through CD-ROM and diskette
versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than the
Conventional and 21st
Century Genres
Activity 1:
Directions: Compare and contrast
these modern literary genres using
the Venn Diagram
Conventional and 21st
Century Genres
ACTIVITY 2:
You have learned the different conventional and modern
literary genres. As a 21st century learner, retell the old Filipino
folktale The Sun and the Moon using one of the genres below
and post your work
Conventional and 21st
Century Genres

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