21st Century-Literacy-GenresLecture.pptx

21st Century Literature

1. 21st Century Literacy Genres

2. Major Literary Genres! POETRY DRAMA FICTION NON-FICTION

3. Major Literary Genres! POETRY A type of Literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (using lines and stanzas) - 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.

4. STRUCTURE STANZA- formal division of lines in a poem RHYME- the repetition in two or more words of final consonant in stressed syllables END RHYME- rhyming words come at the end of the lines. INTERNAL RHYME- rhyming words appear at the same line. RHYTHM- is the pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language. RHYME SCHEME- regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. SPEAKER- imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem.

5. Major Literary Genres! DRAMA Come from the Greek verb “ dran ”, which means “to do”. A story that is empowered by a theme and enacted on stage for a live audience. A prose or verse telling a story intended for representation by actors through dialogue or action. It may be any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional or conflicting interest.

6. Functions of dialogue Reveals character Moves the plot along Show what one character thinks of another character Reveal conflict and build tension Can show how someone feels

7. Point of view OMNISCIENT POV The story is told in third person by a narrator who has unlimited knowledge of events and characters. THIRD PERSON LIMITED POV The story is told in third person but from the view point of a character in the story. POV is limited to the character’s perceptions and shows no direct knowledge of what other characters are thinking, feeling, or doing. FIRST PERSON POV The author disappears into one of the characters. Shares the limitations of third person limited. Uses the pronouns “I” and “We”. SECOND PERSON POV Uses the pronoun “you” Infrequently used.

8. FICTION Is the literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story. Novel - It is usually consist of long narrative, of a more or less fictional nature, which is usually told by chapters or segments. Short story- works of fiction usually prose, which are longer than flash fiction and shorter than novels and novellas Novella - piece of prose fiction shorter than a novel but longer than a short story Major Literary Genres!

9. Non-fiction based on facts and author’s opinion about a subject. The purpose is to inform and sometimes to persuade FICTION NON-FICTION Made up Facts Subjective Objective Plot, settings, and characters Factual stories on actual events and people Magniloquence language Direct and specific Authors were given freedom Authors were controlled by facts Plays, stories and poems Newspapers, adverts, brochures, reference books, and biographies Major Literary Genres!

10. 21 st century literature FLASH ACTION ILLUSTRATED NOVEL DIGI-FICTION GRAPHIC NOVEL MANGA DOODLE FICTION HYPER POETRY BLOG TEXT-TALK NOVELS CHICK LIT or CHICK LITERATURE SIX-WORD FLASH FICTION CREATIVE NON-FICTION SCIENCE FICTION

11. 21 st century literature 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.

12. 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. 21 st century literature

13. 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 21 st century literature

14. 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 . 21 st century literature

15. 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 21 st century literature

16. TEXT-TALK NOVELS  Blogs, email and IM format narratives  Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchanges. 21 st century literature

17. 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. 21 st century literature

18. 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.

19. SIX-WORD FLASH FICTION  Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby socks, never worn.  Margaret Atwood: Longed for him. Got him, Shit 21 st century literature

20. 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/ facts 21 st century literature

21. 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. 21 st century literature

22. 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. 21 st century literature

23. 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. 21 st century literature