DEFINE WHAT LITERARY

GENRE IS
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 LITERARY GENRE.

• A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres

may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or
length (especially for fiction). They generally move from more
abstract, encompassing classes, which are then further sub-
divided into more concrete distinctions.

• The distinctions between genres and categories are flexible

and loosely defined, and even the rules designating genres
change over time and are fairly unstable.
 LITERARY GENRE.

• Genres can all be in the form of prose or poetry. Additionally,

a genre such as satire, allegory or pastoral might appear in any
of the above, not only as a subgenre (see below), but as a
mixture of genres. Finally, they are defined by the general 
cultural movement of the historical period in which they were
composed.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GENRE?

• The purpose of a genre is to help you figure out how people
tend to act, react, and interact in the situation in which you
are writing

• So if you tell your readers you are giving them a “movie

review,” they will have some predictable expectations about
the content, organization, style, and design of your text.
 WHAT ARE THE 5 TYPES OF LITERARY
GENRE?
• #1 Fiction. One of the most popular genres of literature,
fiction, features imaginary characters and events.
• #2 Nonfiction
• #3 Drama
• #4 Poetry
• #5 Folktale
WHAT ARE THE BENEFIT OF STUDYING
THE GENRE?
• Genre study helps students develop a "habit of the mind"-
reading like a writer (Ray 2006).
• It brings writing and reading together.
• Students immersed in genre study can more easily choose the
genre for their writing
• They can take a piece in one genre and rework it into another.
HOW IMPORTANT ARE LITERARY
GENRES?

Genres also provide the writer with general

organizational patterns that can help them arrange
what they say and when they say it.

For readers, genres help organize information so that

they can more easily make sense of what they are about
to read.
IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT LITERARY
GENRES OF 21ST CENTURY
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 ILLUSTRATED NOVEL

• Story through tect and illustrated images

• 50% of the narrative is presented without words
• The reader must interpret the images to comprehend the story
completely.
• Textual portion are presented in traditional form.
• Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all.
• Span all genres.
• Example include The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian
Selznick and The Arrival by Shaun Tan.
EXAMPLES OF ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
 DIGI-FICTION

• Triple Media Literature

• Combines three media: book, movie/video and internet
website to get the full story, students must ingage in
navigation, reading, and viewing in all three forms.
• Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek and Anthony Zuiker’s Level
26 are examples.
EXAMPLES OF DIGI-FICTION
 GRAPHIC NOVEL

• Narrative in comic book formals

• Narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader
using a comic forms.
• The term is employed in 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
EXAMPLE OF A GRAPHIC NOVEL

• By John Goldwater
• Illustrator, Bob
Montana
 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, 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.
EXAMPLES OF DOODLE FICTION
 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.
EXAMPLES OF CHICK LIT OR CHICK
LITERATURE
 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.
 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.
EXAMPLES OF CREATIVE NON-FICTION
 SCIENCE FICTION

• such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time

travel, faster than light travel, a parallel universe and extra-
terrestrial 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.
EXAMPLES OF SCIENCE FICTION
 BLOG

• A weblog, a website
containing short articles
called posts that are
changed regularly.
• Some blogs are written
by one person containing
his or her own opinions,
interests and experiences,
while others are written
by different people.
 HYPER POETRY

• Digital poetry that uses links and 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 transform.
• It is usually found online, through CD-ROM and diskette
versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than the
mid-1980’s.
EXAMPLE OF A HYPER POETRY
 LITERARY GENRES OF EARLIER
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 POETRY
Book by Gaspar Aquino de Belen
• Poetry is one of the
earliest genres of
literature. It was either
recited or sang back to
prehistoric times to call for
help from a deity, narrate a
hero’s life and victories,
tell about the love story of
their rulers, or describe
someone who inspires
them.
 FICTION

• Fiction is a story of make

believe. It is a story made
by the author’s creative
imagination. It has various
sub-genres like mystery,
fantasy, suspense,
historical fiction science
fiction, realistic fiction
and folklore (myths,
fables, legends).
 NON-FICTION

• Nonfiction is a literary genre that

tells about stories that actually
happen in real life. The sub
genres of literary nonfiction are
biography, memoir,
autobiography, journals, diaries,
periodicals and references. These
works of literary nonfiction have
character, setting, plot, conflict,
figurative language, and theme
just like literary fiction, fiction
and thriller or suspense.
 DRAMA

• A script may only come to Philippine Sarsuela/Zarzuela

A Lyric Theater Drama
existence once it is
performed before an
audience. Its basic
elements include the
literary element (script),
technical element (scenery
set, make-up, costume,
lights, and sound)
performance element.
 FOLKTALE

• Folktale are prose narratives Example of a Folktale

of incidents that do not
belong to a specific place or
time. It could be just located
just as as much in the
present as in the past or
future. It is taken as fiction
by its hearers and enjoyed
as such.
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• 1. CLAR JOVEN MARATAS

• 2. ANGELO DANO
• 3. JOBERTH JOHN PALOMERA
• 4. JUENICE DAVE BALUMA
• 5. RANDY QUERUELA .JR