What’s New

Directions: Look for the conventional literary genres in the puzzle

below and, on a separate sheet of paper, answer the
questions that follow.

W F H I O M B O Z I
A E C D R A M A A O
P T S U P B W P F L
U O T H U N D I I K
L I E S W R F Y C F
K F L T Q T W T T I
G X P M R A S K I C
H N W N L Y E V O T
D J R V A E R B N I
X Y J C U I U Y E O
N O N F I C T I O N

1. What are the four conventional literary genres have you found in the
puzzle?

2. What are their unique features?

Let’s recall the major literary genres!

POETRY- 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.

DRAMA- 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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FICTION- 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.

NON-FICTION- 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 and magazines and
newspapers.

What is It

You have rediscovered the conventional literary genres. This part of the
module would let you learn modern literary genres presently used by 21 st
century writers.

21st Century Literature Genres

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.

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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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 Montana, is a
good example.

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) • 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
• Examples include The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney and
Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis.

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.

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• 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 started with a Kiss are examples of this.

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.

SIX-WORD FLASH FICTION

• Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby socks, never worn.
• Margaret Atwood: Longed for him. Got him, Shit.

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.

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 Maas’
Kingdom of Ash.

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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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 mid-1980’s.

What’s More

After learning about different conventional and modern genres of literature,

you are now ready to explore more about these concepts by answering the
activities that follow.

Activity 1
Direction: Analyze the content of the text below and identify its
literary genre.

Tristan Café is an example of 21st Century literature which falls

under flash fiction. The said story depicts extreme brevity where
the reader must analyze the story well in order to understand it's
exact message/meaning. The texts and words on the story lead to
another direction/somewhere else. And on the last part, the last
sentence gives narrative insight

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Source: https://twitter.com/reivylc/status/1170266247012831233

Assessment 1
Write a 5-10 sentence paragraph describing the characteristics of Tristan
Café that qualifies it as a 21st century literary piece. Use the paragraph
writing rubric as your guide.

Criteria 4 3 2 1 Points
Content At least three At least two At least two Only one
characteristics characteristics characteristic characteristi
of the genre are of the genre are s of the genre c is written
listed and listed and are listed but
explained explained not explained

Organization Details are in Details are in Some details All details are
logical order and logical order yet are not in not in logical
interesting less interesting logical order order

Mechanics No errors in One to two Three to five Six or more

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and Grammar punctuation, errors in errors in errors in
capitalization, punctuation, punctuation, punctuation,
and spelling capitalization, capitalization, capitalization,
and spelling and spelling and spelling
errors errors errors

Activity 2
Directions: Compare and contrast these modern literary genres using
the Venn Diagram

TEXT TALK NOVEL is like messaging, email format narratives.

stories fold almost completely in dialogue simulating social
network exchange.

A Blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational

website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete,
often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

Hyper poetry is a form of digital poetry that uses links using

hypertext mark-up. It is a very visual form, and is related to
hypertext fiction and visual arts. The links mean that a hypertext
poem has no set order, the poem moving, or being generated in
response to the links that the reader/user chooses.

Assessment 2
Based on your answer in Activity 2, briefly answer the following questions.

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1. What characteristics make these genres similar in terms of elements?
Genre consists of four elements or parts: character, story, plot and
setting. An equation for remembering the genre is: Story

2. What characteristics make these genres similar in terms of structure?

The characteristics that make these genres similar in terms of structure

are the structure of the movie: the premise, the plot of the movie/ the
action, the location, and the characters of the story. These are what
defines the type of movie genre that could be drama, comedy, action,
thriller, terror, western, romance, children, adventure, and science-
fiction basically. Most of these genres can have subcategories, according
to the specific topic of the story.

Activity 3

Directions: Write the similarities and differences of the Doodle Fiction,

Manga and Graphic Novel using the Compare and Contrast
Graphic Organizer.

Name: ______________________________ Date: _____________________

Assessment
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Differences in Terms Differences in Terms
Similarities of Elements Create a blog
of Structure
post based on
your answer
in Activity 3.
Use the rubric
below as your
guide.

4 3 2 1
Content

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Opinions and Opinions and Opinions and Opinions and
information shared information shared information shared information shared are
are complete are limited to 2 are limited to 1 unconnected/irrelevant
modern literary genres modern literary genre to the given topic

Sources
Cited an extensive Cited an extensive Cited an extensive Information shared
information from a information from a information from a based on personal
variety of reliable variety of reliable variety of reliable opinion without
sources correctly sources with very few sources with sources to back it up
minor errors
numerous errors
Creativity
Language and Language and Language and blog Language and blog
blog features are blog features are features are features are not
communicated in communicated in communicated in communicated in
unusual ways interesting ways interesting ways but surprising and
not related to the interesting ways
topic

What I Have Learned

You have tried your hands in discovering the characteristics of the literary
genres discussed in this module. Reflect on what you have learned by
answering the questions that follow.

1. What are the conventional literary genres?

 The four main literary genres are poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and
drama, with each varying in style, structure, subject matter,
and the use of figurative language.
2. What are the common characteristics of conventional literary genres?
 Based in oral tradition with no known author.
 Anytime and anyplace (once upon a time in a place far away).
 Common ending (they lived happily ever after).
 Often magical.
 Typically, evil is defeated and hero/heroine triumphs.
 Contain universal truths and values of time.
 Were sometimes used to instruct children in values.
3. What are the different 21st century literary genres?

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 The module will focus on contemporary literature, exploring
21stC literary forms, modes and genres including game writing,
autofiction, speculative fiction, specialist poetry, Hypertext, and
experimental fiction.
4. What are the common characteristics of modern literary genres?
 notable characteristic of modernism is self-consciousness
concerning artistic and social traditions, which often led to
experimentation with form, along with the use of techniques
that drew attention to the processes and materials used in
creating works of art.
5. What is the difference between conventional and modern literary
genres?
 Traditional literature usually follow a strict set of rules in
writing, whereas, modern literature is more free, and sometimes
mixes different qualities of literary work to form a more creative
and innovative piece.

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