21st Century Literature 2nd Quarter Reviewer

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Flash fiction - A style of fictional literature of extreme brevity.

Doodle Fiction - A literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle drawings and hand written graphics in place of traditional font.

Graphic Novels - Narrative in comic book formats.

Manga - It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comics books and graphic novels originally published in Japan.

Illustrated Novel - It is a story through text and illustrated images.

The girl who liked to save - 1st English language African Play.

Black Hermit – 1st East African drama.

OKIKE - Africa’s most influential literary magazines.

Chinua Achebe written his 1st novel entitled Things fall apart.

Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford - published the 1st African novel written in English.

Pre-Columbian Period - It is the period where literature in Latin-America was primarily oral, and it was introduced by the Aztecs and Mayans.

Latin-American Literature - It is consist of oral and written literature in several languages (Spanish, Portuguese and the indigenous languages of Americas as well
as literature of the United States written in the Spanish language)

Lake Isle of Inisfree was written by William Butler Yeats.

William Blake - is the writer of poem entitled “The Tyger”.

William Butler Yeats - is an Irish poet and dramatist, and Noble Laureate, who was a leader of the Irish Renaissance and one of the foremost writers of the 20 th
Century.

Drama - is the highest glory of the English Renaissance

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - is the writer of the Sonnets from Portuguese.

Beowulf – is an example of an Anglo-Saxon Hero Tale.

Edgar Allan Poe - is the father of Short Stories and the writer of the famous “El Dorado”.

Charles Dickens - is the writer of the novels “David Copperfield”, “Oliver Twist,” “A Tale of Two Cities”, “Christmas Carol” and “Great Expectations”.

Rudyard Kipling is most widely known for his work for children, especially the Jungle Book.

Mark Twain - is the writer of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

William Wordsworth - is the father of Romanticism.

Geoffrey Chaucer - is known the father of English Literature and widely considered the greatest English poet of the middles Ages.

The name “England” is derived from the Old English name ENGLALAND which means Land of Angles.

Haiku – is the shortest form of Japanese poetry and it is the most popuplar. It has 17 syllables and 3 lines consist of 5-7-5 syllables.

Kabuki Play - The shortest form of Japanese poetry and it is the most popuplar. It has 17 syllables and 3 lines consist of 5-7-5 syllables.

Rabindranath Tagore - was a great Indian poet and dramatist. He was awarded the Novel Prize for literature in 1913 and was knighted by the British
Government in 1915.

Confucius - was the greatest philosopher of the world has known and one of the truly great men that China has produced.

Asian Literature - was the greatest philosopher of the world has known and one of the truly great men that China has produced.

21st Century Literature Genres  Illustrated Novels


 Graphic Novels
 Flash Fiction  Doodle Fiction
 Manga  Spoken Poetry
 Digi-Fiction  Speculative Fiction
 Chick-Lit
 Literature on Social Media

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