L2: FORMS OF FICTION

FICTION

• A type of prose

• Narrative created from one’s imagination

• Stories that use invented people, events, and places

CLASSIFICATION OF FICTION

1. According to length (words)

2. According to quality

3. According to types

According to length (words)

1. novel

2. novella

3. short story

How many words are in a novel?

50k

How many words are in a novella?

17, 500-49, 999

How many words are in a short story?

at least 2000

According to quality

1. Literary fiction

2. Commercial fiction

Literary fiction

• Conforms to a literary standard

• Has intellectual value 

• Has garnered accolades

Accolades:

recognized as a great piece of literature or has merit

Commercial fiction

• Pertains to the popular fiction or fiction that sells

• Should be easily accessible, affordable, and it appeals to the masses and the elite

• Also known as trash novel

why is commercial fiction know as trash novel?

Accessibility of the literary work

main goal of commercial fiction

sell many copies

According to types

novels

types of novels

1. Realistic

2. Graphic

3. Picaresque

4. Historical

5. Bildungsroman

6. Epistolary

7. Mystery

8. Gothic

9. Autobiographical

10. Children’s novel

11. Detective

12. Interactive

13. Modern short story

14. Legends

15. Romances

Realistic

truthful

opposite of realistic

fantasy

Graphic

comic strip

Picaresque

likable rogue

Likable rogue is an?

oxymoron

Historical

particular time

Bildungsroman

coming of age

Young Adult: adolescent transitions to adulthood through a series of dilemmas

theme of bildungsroman

Epistolary

• Told in letters

• Main Characters correspond within one another and you will find within the letters the story

Mystery

• mysterious death or crime

• subgenre of crime

Crime

• usually requires that there is something to be solved

• Related to detective fiction

crime fiction is also known as?

whodunit

Gothic

• horror, death, romance

• Deals mostly with dark themes

• Has something to do with the texture of the material also

• macabre

macabre

something strange or weird

Autobiographical

• life story

• Based on the life of real people

Children’s novel

•  children sensibilities

• Age specific

• Educative in function

children’s novel is educative in function as?

It aims to teach a particular skill or fact

Detective

 subgenre of crime mystery

Interactive

• choose your adventure

• Needs the participation of the readers

This is an example of a what?

—

Eager to experiment on literary forms, Ines is deciding on what she should write. She should use this type of novel

Interactive novel

Modern short story

has two types

1. forerunners

2. folktales

Forerunners

oral tradition

Legends

has 3 types

1. fable

2. parables

3. allegories

Fable

Anthropomorphized

Anthropomorphized means?

personification

Parables

morals or spiritual lesson based on the Bible

Allegories

hidden meaning of moral or political nature

allegories are presented through?

symbolism

Romances

has two types

1. Romance

2. romance

Romance

• the literary movement or era

• Romantic period

Romantic period

authors emphasized the expression of their feelings - individualization, finding of the self

romance

Pertaining to the feeling of love and related feelings

WHAT DO MODERN SHORT STORIES DO?

Telling a story in a quick manner

TYPES OF MODERN SHORT STORIES

1. Anecdotes

2. Sketch

3. Vignette

4. Feghoot or fegshoot

5. Twitterture

6. Flash fiction

Anecdotes

• Stories about one’s personal experience as told from their POV

• Usually done in a way of conversation with other person

Sketch

• Very quick or vague telling of an idea

• Mostly unfinished

Vignette

• Short recounting of an experience

• Usually only one paragraph

Feghoot or fegshoot

Humorous story meant to have a punchline or joke

Twitterture

• A wordplay between twitter and literature

• Stories made through tweets

An example of a twitterture are …?

AUs

Are stories that are made on social media platforms considered literature?

Yes, as long as they meet the literary standards

Flash fiction

• Sudden, postcard, drabble, micro or nanofiction, six-word fiction

• Economy of words

• Does not spoon feed the readers

• Often lacks details for readers to attach meaning to it

What is the goal of flash fiction?

make an impact or maintain emotional power of the story

flash fiction is an economy of words as it?

Tell a very good story in a few words

flash fiction starts with?

medias res

medias res means?

in the middle of the action

what techniques does flash fiction employ?

Show don’t tell technique

Show don’t tell technique does not what?

immediately tell how things were at that time

PRE-WRITING STRATEGIES

1. Listing or Cataloging

2. Clustering or mind mapping

3. Index card matching 

4. Free writing

CLOSE READING

• In-depth analysis of a text’s make-up 

• the techniques and devices involved in forming the text).

LITERARY STANDARDS

1. Artistry

2. Suggestiveness

3. Intellectual Value

4. Permanence

5. Style

Artistry

• Aesthetically appealing and reveals or conveys hidden truth and beauty

• Art → made by man

• Balance between Form and Context

Form

• way a text is written

• Choice of words

• Diction

Context

• message (theme) of a literary work

• Message of your work

Suggestiveness

• Techniques like imagery and symbolism make the writing go beyond its words.

• Allows the work to inspire and provoke thoughts and understanding beyond the actual words

Intellectual Value

• Makes you think deeply and consider life's truths

• Promotes critical thinking and makes readers focus on the fundamental truths of life and nature.

Permanence

Literature means a work's ability to last a long time, but can't predict it when it's written

An example of permanence is?

William Shakespeare's works →  When he wrote them hundreds of years ago, he couldn't have known they would still be widely read and studied today

Style

• How an author uniquely uses language to convey their ideas. 

• Distinct way the author expresses his or her thoughts 

• use of language should be exquisite

In salingkit the author employed what in the first chapter?

narration and diaries

True or False. Creative Writing and academic writing both serve the same purpose.

False

who is the author of salingkit?

Cyan Abad-Jugo

the year 1986 in salingkit highlights the?

• historical context of the Philippines, during the People Power Revolution (EDSA Revolution)

• Filipinos united to overthrow the Marcos dictatorship and restore democracy. 

True or False. Creative Writing deals with imaginative writing.

True

Yolanda is a beginning writer and likes to test the appeal of her stories by posting them on Facebook before sending them to anthology publishers. Is this permissible?

Yes. As long as her works are up to par with literary standards.

Justin’s story features animals with human-like qualities. What type of fiction is this?

Fable

What POVs are used in the first chapter of Salingkit?

1st and 3rd

Kitty is a ____ narrator

unreliable

why is kitty an unreliable narrator?

as Kitty is still a child, she has conflicting ideas of who she is and what is going on around her

True or False. The use of gadgets is encouraged during the prewriting stages.

False

JM wants to submit his novel to a publishing house for consideration. How long should his project be in order to qualify?

50,000 words or more

True or False. The writing process is linear in nature.

False

 For the Season of Creation, Sr. Marissa wrote a handbook of prayers to guide retreatants on their nature walks. What literary standard does Sr. Marissa’s work score high in?

Spiritual Value

True or false. Creative Writing has a holistic approach to promoting a person’s well-being.

true

true or false.  It is possible for formal writing to also make use of literary devices.

false

Gian is writing a book report on George Orwell’s 1984. One of the statements he wrote is: “It changed my perspective on the concept of freedom.” What literary standard does this satisfy?

suggestiveness

Van, a Tiktok star and best-selling novelist, is able to market his novels each time he goes live on Tiktok. While his works have not won any awards yet, his followers eagerly go to any bookstore to buy them. Under what category of Fiction can his works be categorized?

commercial fiction

true or false. Cataloging allows the writer to activate their unconscious mind.

true

Why is Kitty considered a salingkit?

She is confused about the changes happening around her.

What is the backdrop setting of Salingkit?

Before the snap election.

 What is the timeframe of Salingkit's first chapter?

One month.

How does the author connote the passage of time in the first chapter of Salingkit?

By putting curlicues between each transitional paragraph.

 The members of the New Wavers Club have names inspired by their favorite musicians. What literary device is used here?

allusion