Literary Genres

Grade 11
21 Century
st
Literature Genres
Mr. Arjune L. Pantallano – Subject Teacher
What is 21st Century Literature?
● New literary works developed in the recent
decade are referred to as 21st Century
Literature. These are authored by modern
authors and deal with current topics/issues
while reflecting a technology society.
Who are the 21st Century Reader?
● The 21st Century Reader is someone

who grew up with technology as their
major learning tool and is capable of
navigating and deciphering digital
forms and media messages.
21st Century Literary Genres
• Illustrated Novel
• Digi-Fiction
• Graphic Novels
• Manga
• Doodle Fiction
• Text-Talk Novels
• Chick Lit or Chick Literature
• Flash Fiction
• Six-Word Flash Fiction
• Science Fiction
• Blog
• Creative Non-Fiction
• Hyper Poetry
ILLUSTRATED
NOVEL
ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
● 50 % of the narrative is presented
without words.
● The reader must interpret the images in

order to comprehend completely the
story.
ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
● Textual portions are presented in
traditional form.
● Some illustrated novels may

contain no text at all.
ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
DIGI-FICTION
DIGI-FICTION
Combines three media: book,

movie/video, and internet
website.
DIGI-FICTION
In order to get the full story,

students must engage in navigation,
reading, viewing, in all three
formats
DIGI-FICTION
Graphic
Novels
Graphic Novels
• Narrative work in
which the story is
conveyed to the
reader using comic
form.
Graphic Novels
Manga
Manga
●It is used in the English-
speaking world as a generic
term for all comic books and
graphics novels originally
published in Japan.
Types of Manga:
• Shonen - Boy’s Manga

• Shojo – Girl’s Manga
• Seinen – Men’s Manga
• Josei – Women’s Manga
• Kodomo – Children’s Manga
Manga
NARUTO ONE PIECE

Manga
NARUTO ONE PIECE

Manga
NARUTO
Manga
SAILORMOON
Manga
AKIRA
Manga
LOVELESS PARADISE KISS

Manga
DORAEMON
Doodle Fiction
Doodle Fiction
Literary presentation where the

author incorporates doodle writing
and drawings, and handwritten
graphics in place of traditional
font.
Doodle Fiction
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

Text-Talk Novels
Text-Talk Novels
• Blog, email, IM format narratives.

• Stories told almost completely in
dialogue simulating social network
exchanges.
Text-Talk Novels
Chick Lit
or
Chick Literature
Chick Lit or Chick Literature
● Is genre fiction which addresses
issues of modern womanhood,
often humorously and
lightheartedly.
●Chick it typically features a
female protagonist whose
womanhood is heavily
thermalized in the plot.
Flash
Fiction
Flash Fiction
Is a style of fictional
literature of extreme brevity.
Flash Fiction
SIX-WORD
FLASH FICTION
Six-word Flash Fiction
A six-word story that allows a

reader to consume an entire
narrative in just a moment’s
time.
Six-word Flash Fiction
Ex.
“Longed for him, got him, shit.”
“For sale: baby socks, never worn.”
“Your biggest regret? Those happy moments.”
“you’re my certain kind of sadness.”
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, parallel universe and
extraterrestrial life.
Often explores the
potential consequences of
scientific and other
innovations and has been
called a “literature of
Ideas”.
Science Fiction
Blog
Blog
A web log ; a website

containing short articles called
posts that are changed
regularly.
Blog
Some blogs are written by one
person containing their own
opinions, interests and
experiences, while others are
written by many different people.
Blog
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.
Hyper
Poetry
HYPER POETRY
● It can either involved set words, phrases,
lines, etc. that are presented in variable order
but sit on the page much as tradition poetry
does, or it can contain parts of the poem that
move and/or mutate.

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Grade 11

● The 21st Century Reader is someone

● The reader must interpret the images in

● Some illustrated novels may

Combines three media: book,

In order to get the full story,

• Shonen - Boy’s Manga

NARUTO ONE PIECE

NARUTO ONE PIECE

LOVELESS PARADISE KISS

Literary presentation where the

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

• Blog, email, IM format narratives.

A six-word story that allows a

A web log ; a website

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