SBCA-ELT 4-Genres, Branches and Renowned Authors of Literature

​Genres, Branches, and Renowned Authors of Literature

ACTIVITY

Match the literary pieces with their authors. Tick your answer from the given choices.

Multiple Choice

The Little Prince

• Leo Tolstoy

• Antoine de Sainte Exupery

• Dante Alighieri

• William Shakespeare

Multiple Choice

Noli Me Tangere

• Marcelo H. Del Pilar

• Jose Garcia Villa

• Andres Bonifacion

• Jose Rizal

Multiple Choice

The Tale of Genji

• Matsuo Basho

• Confucius

• Murasaki Shikibu

• Omar Khayam

Multiple Choice

Macbeth

• William Shakespeare

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Elizabeth Barrett Browing

• Robert Frost

Multiple Choice

Self-Reliance

• Helen Keller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Percy Byshe Shelley

• Edgar Allan Poe

ANALYSIS

1. How did you find the activity

2. How did you answer the activity

3. What was the activity all about?

OBJECTIVES

1. Recall the different branches and genres of literature

2. Identify the different renowned authors included in the English Curriculum of Junior High School level

3. Appreciate literary diversity and cultural heritage

Literature

• Literature comes from the Greek word litera which means 'letter.'

• classified as UTILITARIAN and CREATIVE

• UTILITARIAN Literature: memoranda, news reports and speeches

• CREATIVE Literature: literature studied in the classrooms

Genre

Allan (2014) describes genre by recognizing that it should not be black and white:
The first thing to observe is that a genre is not a rigid mould which works must fit into, but a group of texts that share certain similarities--whether of form, performance context, or subject matter...But although certain 'core' features characterize any given genre, the boundaries of each genre are fluid and are often breached for effect.

C R E AT I V E
L I T E R AT U R E

• Appeals to the aesthetics as shown in

the styles of writing by authors, poets,
novelists, and playwrights

• Style is expressed in the form of writing

which might coincide with the known
characteristics of the genre

• Major divisions: PROSE and POETRY

P RO S E

• A creative literature without much

regard for metrical structure

• Can be spoken or written as long

as it is in ordinary form

• Can be divided into FICTION and

NON-FICTION

F I C T I O N P RO S E

•Refers to non-metrical texts with plot, settings,
characters, and themes created from the imagination

•Written fiction prose: short stories, novels and
novelettes

•Oral fiction prose: fables, fairy tales, myths, legends,
and folktales

N O N - F I C T I O N T E X T S

Refers to factual
narrations focused
on actual events,
places and people

Biographies,
essays, journals
and epistles

P O E T RY

•“rhythmical creation of beauty”- Edgar Allan Poe

•A form of creative literature that utilizes words in
a unique and special way

•Uses figurative language, imagery, rhyme, and other
stylistic devices in its formulation of verses and
lines

P O E T RY

• Can be distinguished into

lyric and narrative kinds

• LYRIC poems-express

observations, emotions and
feelings in a metered
structure

• Genres of Lyric poem: songs,

sonnets, odes, elegies,haiku
and tanaka

• NARRATIVE poems-story

poems which narrate plots
in metrical forms and the
elements of a story are
present

• Genres of Narrative poem-

epics, metrical tales,
metrical romances, and
ballads

D r a m a

• A performance literature

• A portrayal of events (fictional or true) with the delivery of

written dialogue in either prose or poetry structure

• Can be performed on stage, in television, film, or even the

radio

• Two divisions: COMEDY and TRAGEDY

• New emerging genres: dramatic monologues, tragicomedies,

melodrama, satires, and farce

G e n r e s o f F i c t i o n p r o s e ,

N a r r a t i v e p o e t r y a n d D r a m a

Genres can be classified according to content or plot
theme

Common story genres: romantic, tragic-horror, mystery,
crime-thriller, science, fantasy and historical

​Fast Check!

Which fiction genre do you prefer in reading- novels and/ or short stories?

How about viewing films and TV shows? Why?

Open Ended

In one minute, list down all the text titles you can think of as good examples under the three major branches of creative literature. Think about the texts you have learned in your previous literature classes or literary pieces you have read on your own. Three major branches: PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA

Open Ended

In one minute, give a representative literary piece for the following fictional genres: (1) Science fiction, (2) Fantasy fiction, (3) Tragic drama, (4) Epic hero, (5) Musical ballad.

Multiple Choice

Categorize the literary text as fiction or non-fiction: BIRTHDAY CARD

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

Multiple Choice

Categorize the literary text as fiction or non-fiction: REALITY SHOWS

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

Multiple Choice

Categorize the literary text as fiction or non-fiction: MOVIE SCRIPTS

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

Literature in the 21st Century

• authors appeal that the literary pieces must be read for what they uniquely are

• its contention are interdisciplinary, inter-genre, and plural in purpose and meaning

• Literature continues to flourish as long as the reader is digitally literate and is able to analyze and judge if a literary text is valuable

• spoken word poetry, screen plays, movies, television series, audio books, text messages, blogs, podcasts, instant messaging, YouTube videos, pictures, memes, and scripts must not be included in the definition of 'literary texts"

​Teaching Literature Genres

• Allan (2014) concludes in his article that we can understand literary texts well if we identify where the text comes from in terms of genre and how it engages with the individual and transforms the conventions it inherits.

• In teaching literature, we aim at students' development of their potential to be holistic, balanced, and integrative through the expansion of their imagination and literacy.
  

​Teaching Literature Genres

• Teach genres and their characteristics so that learners will be able to comprehend further the literary pieces studied in class (Allan, 2014)

• In teaching literature, we aim at student's development of their potentials to be holistic, balanced and integrative through the expansion of their imagination and literacy.

Fast Check!

1. Which categories are you very familiar with? Which categories are not quite familiar for you

2. Is it possible to study all authors of a particular group of literature? why do you think so?