21st Century Genres

It is a story or narrative told through words complemented by illustrated images.

In most illustrated fiction how many in percentage of the narrative is presented without words while some may not contain any text at all, so the reader must interpret the images to comprehend the story completely.

It is also called triple media literature. It uses the combination of three media: book, movie/video and internet website to tell a narrative, so readers must engage in navigating, reading, and viewing in all three forms to comprehend the story.

they are narratives told in comic-strip formats and published as a book.

To differentiate from illustrated fiction, it basically tells a story using a combination of words and pictures in a sequence across the page.

The term is employed in a broad manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across several genres.

It is the 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.

______ are simple drawings or random shapes and lines that may or may not have concrete representational meanings. These enhance the story, often adding humorous elements.

They are stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchanges. Narratives are usually presented in blog, email, and IM (instant messaging) format.

Jenny Ruth Almocera’s Vince and Kath released by ABS-CBN Publishing is a good example of this genre.

It is an often humorous and light-hearted fiction that addresses issues of modern womanhood.

Stories may include romantic relationships, friendships, and issues in the workplace. It generally targets young women readers.

Scarlet Bailey’s The Night Before Christmas and Miranda Dickinson’s It Started with a Kiss are examples of this.

Flash Fiction is a story narrated in an extremely brief way, but still offers plot and character development and implies a larger story.

It could range from a word to a thousand.

Variety of flash fiction identified by word count include six-word stories (6 words),

Variety of flash fiction identified by word count include six-word stories (50 words),

Match the following varieties of flash fiction.

Here are examples of this genre specifically six-word stories: • For sale: baby socks, never worn by Ernest Hemingway • Longed for him. Got him. Shit by Margaret Atwood

is also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction. It is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.

In contrast with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, it is not primarily written in service to its craft.

As a genre, it is still relatively young and is only beginning to be scrutinized with the same critical analysis given to fiction and poetry.

One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp and Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery are examples.

It 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 extraterrestrial life.

It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations and has been called a “literature of ideas”.

• Examples include Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games and Sarah Maas’ Kingdom of Ash.

It is a website containing short articles called posts that are updated regularly.

Some of it are written by one person containing his or her own opinions, interests, and experiences, while others are written by different people.

Laureen Uy’s Break My Style which includes stories of her travel and style is one of the most followed ____ in the country.

It is digital poetry that uses links and hypertext markup. It can either involve 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.

Like a digital version of a pick-your-own adventure, writers of hypertext literature compile various segments of narrative, images, and other digital-based pages.

Readers then navigate through these at their own pace and leisure. There is no beginning, middle, or end. No start or finish.

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