21 Cent Literary Genre

• POETRY is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices to evoke an emotional response
• DRAMA is a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict and contrast of character, especially intended to be acted on a stage
• FICTION is literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, and includes types like the novel, short story, and novella
• NON-FICTION is based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject, aiming to inform and sometimes persuade, with examples like biographies and articles from textbooks, magazines, and newspapers
• ILLUSTRATED NOVEL:

  • Story through text and illustrated images
  • 50% of the narrative is presented without words
  • The reader must interpret the images to comprehend the story completely
  • Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all
  • Examples include "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick and "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan
• DIGI-FICTION:

  • Triple Media Literature
  • Combines three media: book, movie/video, and internet website
  • Examples include Patrick Carman’s "Skeleton Creek" and Anthony Zuiker’s "Level 26"
• GRAPHIC NOVEL:

  • Narrative in comic book formats
  • Encompasses non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across genres
  • Example: "Archie Comics" by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob Montana
• MANGA:

  • Japanese word for comics
  • 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
  • Includes categories like Shonen, Shojo, Seinen, Josei, and Kodomo
• DOODLE FICTION:

  • Literary presentation incorporating 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
• TEXT-TALK NOVELS:

  • Blogs, email, and IM format narratives
  • Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchanges
• CHICK LIT or CHICK LITERATURE:

  • Genre fiction addressing issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly
  • Features a female protagonist whose femininity is heavily thematic in the plot
  • Examples include Scarlet Bailey’s "The Night Before Christmas" and Miranda Dickinson’s "It Started With a Kiss"
• FLASH FICTION is a style of fictional literature of extreme brevity, with no widely accepted definition of length, ranging from a word to a thousand
• CREATIVE NON-FICTION:

  • Also known as literary non-fiction or narrative non-fiction
  • Uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives
  • Contrasts with technical writing or journalism, focusing on accurate fact but not primarily written in service to its craft
  • Examples include "1000 Gifts" by Ann Voscamp and "Wind, Sand, and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• SCIENCE FICTION is a genre dealing with imaginative concepts like futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, and extra-terrestrial life, exploring the potential consequences of scientific innovations
• BLOG:

  • A weblog containing short articles called posts that are changed regularly
  • Some blogs are personal, reflecting opinions, interests, and experiences, while others are collaborative
• HYPER POETRY is digital poetry that uses links and hypertext mark-up, found online with examples dating back to the mid-1980s