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• Literary genre


  A category of literary composition
• Literary genre


  • May be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or even length
  • Defined by the general cultural movement of the historical period in which they are composed
  • Not to be confused with age categories or format
• 21st century literature


  All literary works written and published in the latter part of the 21st century (from 2001 onwards)
• 21st century literature

  • Often characterized as gender sensitive, technologically alluding, culturally pluralistic, operates on the extreme reality or extreme fiction, and questions conventions and supposedly absolute norms
• Earlier period


  The pre-colonial period or the period long before the Spaniards set foot on the Philippine islands
• Earlier period literature


  • Mostly oral, consisting of folk narratives, riddles, proverbs, sayings, songs, ritual chants, and epics
  • Community-bound, expressing the experience and serving the needs of the community
• Literary genres of the pre-colonial period


  • Epics
  • Folk narratives
  • Proverbs
  • Riddles
  • Songs
• Epics


  • Narratives of sustained length based on oral tradition, revolving around supernatural events or heroic deeds, in the form of verse which is either chanted or sung with a certain seriousness of purpose, and embodying or validating the beliefs, customs, ideals, or life values of the people
• Folk narratives


  • Literature created to explain why certain things existed in their physical environment, in the form of origin myths, legends, fables, tales of the supernatural, and humorous accounts about some trickster
• Proverbs


  • Terse statements of practical wisdom based on long experience and observations about life
• Riddles


  • Attest to the wit and ingenuity and the richness of the imagination of ancient Filipinos
• Songs


  • Of great variety, expressive of a scale of human experiences and feelings, used at almost every occasion at work, at worship, and at play accompanied with musical instrument, mostly of the percussive and stringed varieties
• Literary genres of the 21st century


  • Blog
  • Chick lit
  • Flash fiction
  • Illustrated novel
  • SciFi
• Blog


  • An online journal or informational website displaying information in the reverse chronological order, with latest posts appearing first, where a writer or even a group of writers share their views on an individual subject
• Chick lit


  • A fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously or lightheartedly, typically featuring a female protagonist whose womanhood is heavily thematized in the plot
• Flash fiction


  • A style of fictional literature of extreme brevity, ranging from a word to a thousand
• Illustrated novel


  • Generally, 50% of the narrative is presented without words, requiring the reader to interpret the images in order to comprehend the complete story
• SciFi


  • A genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, faster than light travel, parallel universe and extraterrestrial life