Focuses on the different genres of fiction

1. GENRES OF FICTION

2. FICTION
• Defined as a series of imagined facts
which illustrates truths about human
life

3. Fiction and the Internet
• Fiction is no longer limited to the usual
book form for readers can enjoy
reading it in new forms such as:
-fan fiction
-wattpad fiction
-serial blog fiction
-collaborative fiction
-flash fiction

4. Principal Types of Fiction
• Short Story
-is a brief artistic form of prose fiction
which centers on a single main incident and
intends to produce a single dominant
impression.
-it emphasizes the plot focusing on the
development of action through complication
that leads to resolution
-it also emphasizes character focusing on
the inner life of an individual

5. -it emphasizes setting
-it also emphasizes the theme or the
message helping the readers understand
better the significant and fundamental truths
about life and human nature

6. • Novel
-is an extensive prose narrative, a book-length
story written in prose usually comprising
75,000-100,000 words
-because of its length, it can develop more
characters, more complicated plot, more
elaborate settings and more themes

7. Different Genres of Fiction
• Fable
-a brief story that offers some pointed
statements of truth or explicitly states a
moral.
-its characters are animals, or natural
forces with human traits
Example: The Hare and the Tortoise

8. • Parable
-is a brief narrative with a realistic plot and
implicitly teaches a moral
-it is more serious and suggestive than
fable
-commonly read in the Holy Bible
Examples: Parable of the Prodigal Son
Parable of the Good Shepherd

9. • Tale
-it is a short narrative that is handed
down from the past which contains strange
and wonderful events without detailed
characterization usually read in fairytales
Examples: Jack and the Beanstalk
Rapunzel

10. • Romantic Fiction
– It is a narrative that focuses on adventurous and
daring actions
– Usually sets in a remote time and place with a
dashing hero who saves a beautiful maiden in
distress
– Views life as optimistic and idealistic thus, prefers
happy ending
Examples: Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Ray Bradbury’s A Story of Love

11. • Realistic Fiction
-is a narrative that depicts life as it is
-the characters in this fiction are ordinary men
and women like the people we encounter on a
daily basis
Example: Novels of Sinclair Lewis and Henry
James

12. • Naturalistic Fiction
-also called as extreme or ultra realism
-characters of this fiction are portrayed as
having little of no free will. They are mere
human beasts who are victims of their own
drives, instincts and impulses and doom to
failure or death sometimes
Examples: Guy de Maupassant’s The
Necklace
O Henry’s The Story of An Hour

13. • Historical Fiction
-A fictional story set in a recognizable
period of history. As well as telling the
stories of ordinary people’s lives, historical
fiction may involve political or social events
of the time.
Examples: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall
Bringing Up the Bodies

14. • Science fiction
-can be defined as literature involving
elements of science and technology as a basis
for conflict, or as the setting for a story
-deals with concepts such as new world
settings, futuristic science and technology,
space and time travel, intergalactic warfare,
extraterrestial life, alien abduction and parallel
universe
Examples: Avatar
Terminator 3

15. • Picaresque Fiction
-comes from the word which means rascal
or rogue
-a fiction with a likbale scoundrel of low
social class as protagonist who lives by his wits
and often wanders through adventures duping
the law-abiding citizenry
-adopts a realistic style with elements of
comedy and satire
Example: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s
Don Quixote