21st Century (Types of Literature)

Literature

Mirrors the society, perceive vast knowledge and stimulates your imagination

Forms of Poetry

Lyrical, Narrative, and Dramatic

Drama

Performed in large audiences, examples are tragedy and comedy

Non-Fiction Prose

Based on facts, examples are Diaries and Journals. No structure

Creative Non-Fiction

All real people with a compelling and witty narrative. Examples are essays. Written in a vivid manner

Prose Fiction

Partly imagined or theoretical, made up characters. Imagination

Hyper-Poetry

Also known as Cyber Poetry, uses computers and links or hyperlinks. Cannot be presented without a computer, examples are Poetry-generators.

Blog

Web blog online journal is in reverse chronological order, features diary type header, cmments, navigation, footers etc

Mobile Phone-Text Tula

No title, needs to be read to know what it is about. Example is Tanaga

Chick-lit

Light hearted and is mainly written by women for women. Contains Trials and Tribulations

Flash Fiction

Extremely short stories

Speculative Fiction

Came from Robert 1941, Sci-fi, horror etc.

Dystopian

An world full of suffering, opposite version of an ideal society

Digi Fiction

Written and read in a computer

Text-Talk novels

Includes AU (Alternate Universes)

Doodle Fiction

Drawings than visual formats, examples are Wimpy Kid and Mob Psycho

Manga

Japanese stories, includes genres like Shounen and Shoujo (Girls or Boys respectively)

Illustrated Novels

Word scattering images, for kids

Graphic Novels

Combines images and text, different from manga

Utopia

A perfect society

Literary Genre

Artistic type of writing in story

Tragedy

Sad ending, deaths

Comedy

Good ending, everyone is happy