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Literary

Genres
Activity 1 

Direction: Analyze the content of the picture below and identify its literary genre.

Answer:
╰ Tristan Café made use of the genre Text-Talk
Novel as there is a conversation or dialogue in
the piece. Another genre is Flash Fiction
because even if it is just a short piece, it
already tells a while story. Blog can be seen in
the piece as well as it mentioned the term
‘post’. Hyper poetry is the involvement of set
of words or phrases that are presented in a
variable order so it is applied in this piece as
well.
Source: https://twitter.com/reivylc/status/1170266247012831233
Assessment 1 

Write a 5-10 sentence paragraph describing the characteristics of Tristan Café that qualifies it as a 21st
century literary piece. Use the paragraph writing rubric as your guide.
╰ One of the characteristics of the piece Tristan Café is that it demonstrates independence. It lets
the readers identify the things happening in the story, the key points, and their questions. It makes the
readers become self-directed learners as they build their own scenarios or reasoning as they read through
it. Another one is readers comprehends and as well critique. The readers work diligently to understand the
message the author wants to convey with the use of words and the progress of the piece. But at the same
time, they question the character’s words and actions on why did that happen or why did they do that
thing. Those are just some of the characteristics of Tristan Café that makes it a 21 st literary piece.
Activity 2 

Directions: Compare and


contrast these modern
literary genres using the
Venn Diagram – Blog, Text-
Talk Novel, Hyper Poetry.
Assessment 2 
Based on your answer in Activity 2, briefly answer the following questions.

1. What characteristics make these genres similar in terms of elements?


- All of them use a set of words, phrases, and dialogues that has a progression to create a
complete story.
2. What characteristics make these genres similar in terms of structure?
- These three genres are uses computer screen as their medium. Most works using these
genres are uploaded and can be found online.
Assessment answers 
1. A story told using a combination of text and 4. Tales are written and presented using dialogues in social
illustrations or without text at all. media applications.
a. Digi-Fiction a. Chick Lit
b. Doodle Fiction b. Digi-Fiction
c. Illustrated Novel c. Hyper Poetry
d. Creative Non-Fiction d. Text-Talk Novel

2. A site of collected posts or articles written by one or 5. A factual story is written using literary devices and
more people and updated regularly. techniques.
a. Blog a. Digi-Fiction
b. Flash Fiction b. Doodle Fiction
c. Hyper Poetry c. Illustrated Novel
d. Digi-Fiction d. Creative Non-Fiction

3. Brief stories told in a thousand words or less. 6. Drawings enhance stories in this form where illustrations
a. Blog and handwritten graphics are incorporated.
b. Flash Fiction a. Digi-Fiction
c. Hyper Poetry b. Doodle Fiction
d. Digi-Fiction c. Illustrated Novel
d. Creative Non-Fiction
Assessment answers 
7. The genre of speculative fiction dealing with concepts 10. In English-speaking countries, these are stories with
of time, travel, parallel universe, extra-terrestrial life, illustrations published in Japan.
and futuristic technology. a. Manga
a. Digi-Fiction b. Digi-Fiction
b. Doodle Fiction c. Graphic Novel
c. Science Fiction d. Illustrated Novel
d. Creative Non-Fiction
11. A 700-word story like Angels and Blueberries by Tara
8. It is a collection of stories presented in comic book Campbell is a one-shot fiction that falls under this literary
formats. genre.
a. Digi-Fiction a. Blog
b. Doodle Fiction b. Flash Fiction
c. Illustrated Novel c . Hyper Poetry
d. Graphic Novel d. Digi-Fiction

9. Literature that uses hypertext mark-up (HTM) to 12. Christopher Ford’s Stickman Odyssey, which tells the
connect to other parts of the piece. story through text and handwritten graphics, is an example
a. Blog of this literary genre.
b. Flash Fiction a. Digi-Fiction
c. Hyper Poetry b. Doodle Fiction
Assessment answers 
13. Before it was adapted into an anime, Yoshihiro 15. Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic, which
Togashi’s Hunter x Hunter is a comic book series from revolves around a woman’s shopping addiction and her
Japan that falls under this literary genre. journey to overcoming it, is an example of this literary
a. Manga genre.
b. Digi-Fiction a. Chick Lit
c. Graphic Novel b. Digi-Fiction
d. Illustrated Novel c. Hyper Poetry
d. Text-Talk Novel
14. Batman: The Dark Knight by Frank Miller is a
popular example of this literary genre where the story is
written in comic book format.
a. Manga
b. Digi-Fiction
c. Graphic Novel
d. Illustrated Novel

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