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- 2. SLIDESMANIA.COM MAJOR GENRES OF THE 21st CENTURY PHILIPPINE NATIONAL LITERATURE Letusdiscuss:
- 3. SLIDESMANIA.COM GENRE A style, especially in the arts, that involves a particular set of characteristics.
- 4. SLIDESMANIA.COM MAJOR GENRES ● Poetry ● Fiction ● Creative Nonfiction ● Drama
- 6. SLIDESMANIA.COM POETRY It is a literary type, written in verse that makes up stanzas. It consists of a language with a strong musical quality in which words are highly-charged with meaning. • measures, • rhyming • sound pattern • tones.
- 7. SLIDESMANIA.COM ELEMENTS OF POETRY • Sense - It is revealed through words, images, and symbols. • Sound - It refers to the creative use of words by poets to imitate sounds. • Structure - It refers to the arrangement of words and lines to fit together and the organization of the parts from the whole. • Tone - It refers to the poet’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject, toward the reader, or toward himself. • Voice - It refers to the speaking persona in poetry where specific characters are not indicated as the speaker.
- 9. SLIDESMANIA.COM LYRIC POETRY –A kind of poetry that expresses emotions, mood, and reflection of the musical language of the poet. a. Ode – A majestic type of lyric poetry with an expression of enthusiasm and dignity to someone loved. b. Elegy – A lyric poem with the subject matter of death. It represents a tone of a deep feeling of personal grief for someone who passed away. c. Song – A short lyric poetry that is intended primarily to be sung and has the particular melodious quality required by the singing voice.
- 10. SLIDESMANIA.COM NARRATIVE POETRY -A long descriptive poem that narrates a story in a sequential order about life and events that may be real or imaginary. a. Epic – This is a long narrative poem that tells stories about the life, quests, and adventures of a supernatural hero. b. Ballad – It is considered to be the simplest and shortest form. Its verses suggest significant events mean to be sung.
- 12. SLIDESMANIA.COM FICTION This refers to any imaginative facts and ideas of life. The characters and settings are purely works of the author’s mind and may or may not happen in real life.
- 13. SLIDESMANIA.COM TYPESOFFICTION CHIK LIT FLASH FICTION SPECULATIVE FICTION NOVEL SHORT STORY
- 14. SLIDESMANIA.COM It addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and light- heartedly. The genre became popular in the late 1990s. It "consists of heroine-centered narratives that focus on the trials and tribulations of their individual protagonists". CHIK LIT
- 15. SLIDESMANIA.COM A style of fictional literature of extreme brevity that still offers character and plot development. FLASH FICTION
- 16. SLIDESMANIA.COM –It is a broad category of fiction encompassing genres with certain elements that do not exist in the real world, often in the context of supernatural, futuristic, or other imaginative themes. These include, but are not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction, and supernatural fiction, as well as combinations thereof (e.g. science fantasy). SPECULATIVE FICTION
- 17. SLIDESMANIA.COM A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism. NOVEL
- 18. SLIDESMANIA.COM A short narrative story that focuses on a single plot and is characterized by its different elements. SHORT STORY
- 19. SLIDESMANIA.COM 1. Setting - It is a description of where and when the story takes place. 2. Characters - A person or animal or really anything personified. 3. Plot - It consists of the events that happen in the story. 4. Conflict - Every story must have a conflict, challenge, or problem around which the plot is based. 5. Point of View – This pertains to the voice used by the writer as a narrator of the story and how it was seen or told. 6. Mood – This refers to the atmosphere and tone of the story 7. Theme – It pertains to the central idea which conveys truth and values according to the author’s purpose and perspective on the human experience. 8. Symbols – These are the images and objects used in the story to stand for something other than themselves. ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY
- 20. SLIDESMANIA.COM 1. Protagonist – The main character in the story. 2. Antagonist – The villain who opposes the main character. MAJOR TYPES OF CHARACTERS
- 21. SLIDESMANIA.COM FIVE PARTS OF PLOT Denouement
- 23. SLIDESMANIA.COM A. Omniscient – The author allows the inner thoughts and feelings of the main characters to be presented in the text. B. First Person Point of View – The author is the one observing and speaking in the story. He can be one of the characters or the one portraying his own identity. C. Third Person or Limited Point of View – The author chooses a character as a narrator who will be the central observer and detects action inside the story. THREE POINTS OF VIEW
- 25. SLIDESMANIA.COM CREATIVENONFICTION It is expository in nature and deals with facts and reality and aims to explain a theory, idea, and point of view. It refers to a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create a factually accurate narrative.
- 27. SLIDESMANIA.COM It is a self-written account of life oneself. The word autobiography literally means SELF (auto), LIFE (bio), and WRITING (graph). Or, in other words, an autobiography is the story of someone's life written or otherwise told by that person. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- 28. SLIDESMANIA.COM An account of someone's life written by someone else. A detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. BIOGRAPHY
- 29. SLIDESMANIA.COM This is a piece of writing which is often written from an author’s personal point of view. ESSAY
- 31. SLIDESMANIA.COM DRAMA This is a story written which is intended to be performed and presented on stage. It is the art of imitating human characters and actions.
- 33. SLIDESMANIA.COM TRAGEDY The tragedy deals with a serious action in which the consequences are of great magnitude to the characters involved. The protagonist realizes the severity of the flaw too late, which leads to an inevitable downfall.
- 34. SLIDESMANIA.COM COMEDY Comedy represents the sense of renewal and rebirth, which is why this genre traditionally ends with a wedding and the expectation of a future generation.
- 35. SLIDESMANIA.COM TRAGICOMEDY The tragicomedy attempts to portray characters and life in the most realistic way. Action, characters, and plot are not absolute, but nonjudgmental. As the name suggests, these plays present a thorough mix of tragedy and comedy.
- 36. SLIDESMANIA.COM FARCE A comic dramatic piece that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent horseplay.
- 37. SLIDESMANIA.COM MELODRAMA The melodrama has clearly distinguished good and evil characters. These plays end with a strict moral judgment that rewards the good and punishes evil in a fitting way.
- 38. SLIDESMANIA.COM ELEMENTSOFDRAMA 1. Plot - The order of events occurring in a play makes its plot. Essentially, the plot is the story that the play narrates. 2. Characters – People or creatures in a play. 3. Setting – The time and place of a literary work. 4. Dialogue – Conversation in a play a. Aside – A short speech delivered by the actor to the audience that the other characters do not hear. 5. Soliloquy - A short speech delivered by the actor by uttering his inner thoughts to the audience in order to reveal personal feelings. 6. Gesture – The physical movements of the character on stage. 7. Music – It is used to add color and dramatic effect to the play. 8. Theme – The central idea or message that explains what the play is all about.