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• 21st Century Literature - refers to new literary work created within the last decade.
• 21st Century Reader - are readers who have learned through the use of technology.
• POETRY - 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. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define.
• DRAMA is a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict more contrast of character, especially on intended to be acted on a stage: a play. It may be any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting or striking interest.
• FICTION- is literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature in the fiction include the novel, short story and novella.
• NON-FICTION- is based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject. The purpose of non-fiction writing is to inform and sometimes to persuade. Its examples are biographies, articles from textbooks and magazines and newspapers.
• ILLUSTRATED NOVEL - is a story or narrative told through words complemented by illustrated images. In most illustrated fiction, 50% 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. Some examples include The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and The Arrival by Shaun Tan.
• DIGI-FICTION - 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 full story. Examples of digi-fiction include Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek and Anthony Zuiker’s Level 26.
• GRAPHIC NOVEL - are narratives told in comic-strip formats and published as a book. To differentiate from illustrated fiction, graphic novels tell 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. Archie Comics by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob Montana, and The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin are good examples.
• MANGA - 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. Manga-style comics created by American artists are sometimes called Ameri-manga.
• DOODLE FICTION - is a literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle writing, drawings, and handwritten graphics in place of the traditional font. Doodles 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. Examples include The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney and Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis.
• TEXT-TALK NOVELS - 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.
• CHICK LIT or CHICK LITERATURE - is an often humorous and lighthearted fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood.
• 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.
• six-word stories (6 words)
• 280-character story or twitterrature (280 words or a story in one tweet)
• dribble or mini-saga (50 words)
• 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. It 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 - (shortened form of Weblog) is a website containing short articles called posts that are updated 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 - is digital poetry that uses links and hypertext mark-up. 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. It is usually found online, but CD-ROM and diskette versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than the mid-1980s.
• Mono-rhyming heptasyllabic lines (Short Poem). Monorhyme refers to a poem in which every two lines has an identical rhyme or all the lines end with the same rhyme.)