Week 2: (November 29- December 3, 2021) Lesson 1 21st Century Literacy Genres 21st Century Literature

21st Century Literature Genres

ILLUSTRATED NOVEL Story through text and illustrated images 50% 0f 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.

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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, viewing in all three forms. Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek and Anthony Zuiker’s Level 26 are examples.

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 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 and 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.

· 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. C

· 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.

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 extraterrestrial 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 their own opinions, interests and experiences, while others are written by different people.

HYPER POETRY Digital poetry that uses links using 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 mutate. It is usually found online, through CD-ROM and diskette versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than the mid-1980’s.

Context and Text’s Meaning

In this lesson, you will unravel what goes with the poem.

The structure of the poem refers to words that are put together or arranged

such that they make sense.

Imagery is creating a picture in the reader's mind by using words that appeal to the senses. There are types of Imagery that are used in this module. (Menoy 2016))

· Visual imagery produced by the use of words that appeal to the sense of sight.

· Auditory Imagery produced by the use of words that appeal to the sense of hearing.

· Kinesthetic imagery produced by the use of words that appeal to the actions and movement.

Literary Techniques are methods the author or writer of a literary piece used to convey what they want to impart to the reader, such as Flashback where the events have taken place before the present time the narration is following