Lesson 4: Major Genres:

Poetry, Hyperpoetry, and

Creative Non Fiction
 1. Differentiate the 21st century literary
genres, and the one’s from the
original genres.

2. Enumerate the elements, structures

OBJECTIVES and traditions of each genre.

3. Appreciate the unique features of each

genre.

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 What is Genre?
❑ Genre is the classification of a literary work by its form, content,
and style into categories such as poetry, drama, fiction, and
non-fiction. From there, literature can be further classified into
subgenres.
❑ Each genre varies in its features and functions and
understanding what major genre category a work of literature
falls into will help to bring deeper understanding to that work.

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 What is the purpose of Genre?
❑ It give structure to what types of writing can be worked with.
❑ For authors, they can choose what type of genre they write best
in and specialize in that genre.
❑ Genres do for readers is to classify literature into categories.
❑ Tend to analyze the importance of particular works within the
context of the genre in which it is published.

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 What are the Major Literary Genres?
❑POETRY
❑DRAMA
❑FICTION
❑NON-FICTION

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 Types of Major Literary Genres

POETRY DRAMA FICTION NON - FICTION

1. Follows meter and rhythm 1. Meant to be 1. Created from the 1. It is based on facts and
for every line written. performed in front of an imagination. author’s opinion about
Consists of: audience. 2. Not presented as the subject.
Stanza 2. Subgenres of drama facts. 2. To inform and to
Meter include; 3. Subgenres of fiction persuade.
Rhyme * comedy, include; 3. Subgenres of non-
2. Subgenres of poetry * tragedy, and * Novel fiction include;
include;
*tragicomedy. *Short stories * Biographies
* epic poem narrative,
*romantic, dramatic *Lyric. Ex. Romeo and Juliet by * Articles from textbooks
William Shakespeare. * Newspaper
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Examples of Poetry
 POETRY

Florante At Laura Tutubi Isang Punong kahoy Isang Dipang Langit

Francisco Baltazar Gonzalo K. Flores Jose Corazon De Jesus Amado V. Hernandez

Sa Gabi ng Isang Puyon

Lamberto E. Antonio

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Examples of Drama
 DRAMA

Noli Me Tangere Walang Sugat

Dr. Jose Rizal
Severino Reyes

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Examples of Fiction
Examples of Non Fiction
 NON- FICTION

Looking for Jose Rizal in

Sarap: Essays On Madrid: Journeys, Latitudes,
Philippine Food Perspectives, Destinations
Doreen G. Fernandez Gregorio C. Brillantes

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“ 21st Century Literature Genres

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 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.
• Textual portions are presented in traditional form.
• Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all.
• Span all genres.

Examples include;

https://geekimpulse.com/list-of-9-filipino-comics-graphic-novels/

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 DIGI-FICTION

• Triple Media Literature

• Combines three media: book, movie/video and internet website To get the full story, students must
engage in navigation, reading, and viewing in all three forms.
• Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek and Anthony Zuiker’s Level 26 are examples.

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 GRAPHIC NOVEL

• Narrative in comic book formats

• Narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using a comic form.
• The term is employed in broadly manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short
stories as well as fictional stories across a number of genres.
• Archie Comics by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob Montana, is a good example.

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 MANGA

• 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.
• Considered as an artistic and storytelling style.
• Ameri-manga- sometimes used to refer to comics created by American artists in manga style.
• Shonen- Boy’s Manga (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece)
• Shojo- Girl’s Manga (Sailormoon)
• Seinen- Men’s Manga (Akira)
• Josei- Women’s Manga (Loveless, Paradise Kiss)
• Kodomo- Children’s Manga (Doraemon, Hello Kitty)

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 CHICK LIT or CHICK LITERATURE

• Is genre fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly.
• Chick Lit typically features a female protagonist whose femininity is heavily thermalizing in the plot.
• Scarlet Bailey’s The night before Christmas and Miranda Dickinson’s It started with a Kiss are examples of this.

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 HYPER POETRY

• Digital poetry that uses links and hypertext mark-up

• It can either involved 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, through CD-ROM and diskette versions exist. The earliest examples date to no
later than the mid-1980’s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i1xMH0Im50

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 OTHER 21 ST CENTURY LITERARY
GENRES

❑ DOODLE FICTION

❑ TEXT-TALK NOVELS

❑ FLASH FICTION
❑ CREATIVE NON-FICTION
❑ SCIENCE FICTION

❑ BLOG

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 1. What is the difference between
QUESTIONS: Major Literary Genre to 21st
Century Literary Genre?
 2. If you have an opportunity to be
a writer, what literary genre would
QUESTIONS: you like to use? (Original – 21st
century) Why?
ACTIVITY 1: HYPER POETRY APPLICATION

Choose a partner and do this activity!

You will write a poem about your teacher in English. This is a free verse poem that have a 3 stanzas with four lines of it. Make sure
to use the Hyper poetry genre and do not forget to have a video editing with background music. It can be passed on September 9,
2022 (Friday) uploaded in our Gdrive with a format: (Names - Title of Poem) After you submit, the teacher will give the scores in
your respective GC.

Your performance will be judged based on these criteria:

Criteria Total Score Score

Fluency 5 points
Voice Expression 5 points
Video Presentation 5 points
Creativity / originality of the 10 points
poem
Sound Effect and Music 5 points
30 points

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Thank you