Genre Exploration

Fiction Genres

• Chick lit focuses mainly on modern issues of womanhood and features a female protagonist whose womanhood is heavily traumatized in the plot.
• Flash fiction consists of extremely brief texts or speeches that are under 1500 words.

Science Fiction

• Science fiction deals with imaginative content or a futuristic setting.

Erotic Fiction

• Erotic fiction consists of fiction or factual stories of human sexual relationships and is created to arouse readers sexually.

Graphic Novels

• Graphic novels consist of text and images, similar to comics.

Poetry

Defining Poetry

• Poetry is a type of literary work that uses language in a creative and imaginative way to express thoughts and feelings.

Figurative Language

• The purpose of figurative language in poetry is to create vivid and evocative descriptions that appeal to the reader's senses and emotions.

Imagery

• Imagery in poetry is the use of language to create vivid sensory experiences for the reader.

Meter

• Meter in poetry is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse.

Allusion

• An allusion in poetry is a reference to a person, place, event, or work of art that is outside the text itself, but is woven into the fabric of the poem to create additional meaning.