L3: Literary Genres

• Major Literary Genres

  1. Fiction
  2. Non-fiction
  3. Drama
  4. Poetry
• Fiction

  • is literature created from the imagination.
  • Novel, Short Story
• Non-fiction

  • is based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject
• Drama

  • is a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict more contrast of character.
• 21st Literary Genres

  1. Illustrated Novel
  2. Digi-fiction
  3. Graphic Novel
  4. Manga
  5. Ameri-Manga
  6. Doodle Fiction
  7. Text-Talk Novel
  8. Chick lit or Chick literature
  9. Flash Fiction
  10. Creative Non-fiction
  11. Science Fiction
  12. Blog
  13. Hyper poetry
• Illustrated Novel

  • Story through text and illustrated images.
• Illustrated Novel

  • 50% of the narrative is presented without words.
• Digi-fiction

  • Triple Media Literature
• Digi-fiction

  • Combines three media: book, movie/video and internet website to get the full story
• Graphic Novel

  • Narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using a comic
• Graphic Novel

  • Narrative in comic book formats
• Ameri-Manga

  • Refers to comics created by American artist in manga style.
• Doodle fiction

  • literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle writing and drawings and handwritten graphics.
• Flash Fiction

  • Is a style of fictional literature of extreme brevity
• Creative Non-fiction

  • Also known as literary non-fiction or narrative non-fiction
• Science Fiction

  • is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
• Hyper Poetry

  • Digital poetry that uses links using hypertext mark-up.
• Hyper Poetry

  • can either involved set words, phrases, lines, etc.