21 ST CENTURY LITERATURE GENRES

____ is literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature include the novel, short story and novella.

• Poetry

• Non-Fiction

• Drama

• Fiction

It is based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject. Its purpose is to inform and sometimes to persuade. Its examples are biographies, articles from textbooks and magazines and newspapers.

What do you call 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.

• drama

• poetry

• fiction

• non-fiction

A weblog, a website containing short articles called posts that are changed regularly.

Which of the following are structures of MANGA?

• Japanese word for comics

• Considered as an artistic and storytelling style.

• Drawing enhances the story, often adding humorous elements

• It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels originally published in Japan.

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

• digi-fiction

• Illustrated novel

• chick literature

The following are the structures of Hyper Poetry.

• Also known as literary non-fiction or narrative non-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.

• It is usually found online, through CD-ROM and diskette versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than the mid-1980’s.

Literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle writing, drawings and handwritten graphics in place of the traditional font.

___ 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.

Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchanges.

• text - talk novels

• blog

• six - word flash fiction

• hyper poetry