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• Genre


  A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content
• 21st Century Literature is "contemporary literature" - the literature of the new generation with a shift from paper to screen
• Characteristics of 21st Century Literature


  • Written by contemporary authors within the last decade
  • Deals with current issues and themes
  • Reflects technological culture
  • Literature of emerging genres
  • Often breaks traditional writing
• Digi-Fiction


  A literary experience that combines three media: book, movie/video, and Internet website. To get the full story, readers engage in navigation, reading, viewing, in all three formats.
• Blog


  A discussion or informational website published on the WWW containing short articles, often informal diary-style text entries called POSTS. It combines text, digital images, and links to other blogs. Can be personal, collaborative, corporate, educational, political, and fashion.
• Creative Nonfiction


  A.k.a "Literary Nonfiction" or "Narrative Nonfiction". Uses literary styles and techniques to create a factually accurate narratives. Different from other nonfiction as its purpose is to entertain while delivering factual information. Elements include setting, descriptive imagery, figurative language, plot, and character.
• Creative Nonfiction


  • My Other Name by Gilford Doquila
• Chick Lit


  A genre fiction that addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and light-heartedly. Features a woman in her 20s or 30s as a protagonist, mostly set in urban environments, she is a career woman who is often single but usually ends up with someone. Fashion often plays a big role.
• Chick Lit


  • Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
• Flash Fiction


  A fictional work of extreme brevity (usually under 500 words in length) but still contains the character and plot development. A.k.a. "Short Short Story". Characteristics include story structure, setting, characters and backstory, and description.
• Flash Fiction


  • Ang Huling Emotero by Mark Angeles
• Six-Word Flash Fiction


  A challenging form of flash fiction that tells an entire story in only six words, with no beginning, middle, or end.
• Six-Word Flash Fiction


  • "For sale: Baby shoes, never worn." (Attributed to Ernest Hemingway)
• Hyper-Poetry


  A digital poetry that uses links using hypertext mark-up. A very visual form, and is related to hypertext fiction and visual arts. Falls into two subgenres: interactive poetry and hypertext poetry.
• Hyper-Poetry


  • Epitaph for a Filipino Child by Michael R. Burch
• Text-Talk Novels


  A story told through dialogues in a social network, with exchange by chat or using any SMS slang. Characteristics include cliffhangers, vowels not written, plots usually about love and passion, and sometimes paid episodes.
• Graphic Novels


  A fictional story presented in comic-strip format and published as a book. Uses linguistic (written language), visual (mood through colors, shading, compositions), gestural (body and facial language), spatial (panels, layouts), and symbolic (icons, balloons, visual representations and emanata) elements.
• Graphic Novels


  • Ugh by Julienne Dadivas
  • Ella Arcangel by Julius Villanueva
  • Trese by Budjette Tan & Kajo Baldisimo
• Doodle Fiction


  The author incorporates doodle drawings and hand written graphics in place of traditional font. Doodling engages the brain's "executive resources" and acts as a mediator between thinking too much or too little, helping focus on the current situation.
• Doodle Fiction


  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• Manga


  A comic or graphic novel originating from Japan, usually printed in black and white and serialized in large manga magazines, often containing many stories, each presented in a single episode to be continued in the next issue.
• Manga


  • One Piece by Eiichiro Oda