Flash Fiction

•It refers to largely fictional work of relative Textula

brevity.
•Text tula or Textula is a group of words that
•should have not more than 50 words uses mobile gadgets.

•“Short Short Story,” •It is also more like a tanaga.

•“Micro-Fiction,” •It is consisting of 4 lines and 7 syllables,

•“Micro-Narrative,” •every ending of lines has a rhyme word.

•“Sudden Fiction.”

•According to Bob Batchelor (2011), it is Tanaga may vary in terms of rhyme scheme:
also known as the “Smoking-Long”
•the Basic or AAAA;
•It traces its origins to older genres such as
the fable and the parable. Notable writers •the Enclosed or ABBA rhyme scheme
such as American Ernest Hemingway and (known as INIPIT in Filipino);
Italian Italo Calvino wrote short works that
exemplify the genre. •the Alternate or ABAB (SALITAN);

•Flash Fiction has its equivalent in the •and the AABB rhyme scheme (SUNURAN).
Philippines -- the Dagli.

•Some say that Dagli had already been

Textula
around for decades even before the term
flash fiction became popular. •The early example of this poetic form is
attributed to the friars:
•Examples of Dagli appeared on a regular
basis in newspapers and magazines as •Juan de Noceda;
early as the first few years of American
occupation of the Philippines. •and Pedro de Sancular.

•Among the popular writers of the genre •Textula employs communication

were technology in the sharing of Tanaga. In
2009,
•Jose Corazon De Jesus
• NCCA - the National Commission for
• Lope K. Santos, Culture and the Arts
• Teodoro Agoncillo •part of the celebration of the National Arts
Month and the International Arts Festival.
• A Jeepney Tapestry and Morsels of
Memory.

Fliptop / Rap Battle

•Charlotte Sharon Aninion-De Guzman is a •Just like Textula, fliptop or rap battle is a
true blue Scholastican. She was an English contemporary type of poetry.
teacher at De La Salle College of St. Benilde,
and became the Chairperson of the English •It traces its origin to the hip-hop culture
Area. which includes rap, disc jockeying and
break dancing.
•Popularity of this form started in 2006 Sub-Genres of Speculative Fiction
through social media outlets like Youtube.

•In 2010, Alaric Riam Yuson (a.k.a. Anygma),

started Fliptop Battle here in the Philippines. •Science Fiction – deals mainly with the
impact of actual or imagined science upon
society or individual. Ex. Frankenstein by
Mary Shelley, and A Wrinkle in Time by
Madeleine L’Engle.
Fliptop centers around three important
elements:
•Fantasy – uses magic and supernatural
•1) Content - which is the poetry component, elements in plot, theme, and setting. Magic
is central to the fantasy genre.
•2) Flow - refers to the use of rhythm and
rhyme, and Ex. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien,
and Peter Pan by JM Barrie
•3) Delivery - which pertains to the
performance.

Fliptop / Rap Battle Categories of Modern Fantasy

•Similar to the old balagtasan, •Personified Animals - in this type,
characters are animals that talk and behave
• “poetic debate,” like humans. (Ex. Pig Babe in the City and
Petter Rabbit)
• “poetic jousting,”
• “poetic wrestling,”
•Personified Toys - includes toys that talk
• the rap used in fliptop battle is poetry in
and behave like humans. (Night at the
rhythm to a beat or imagined beat.
Museum and Pinocchio)
•It promotes freedom of expression,
freedom from censorship, and paves an
avenue for creative expression of rhythmic •Outlandish Characters and Situations -
poetry through colorful language. Stories that are realistic but contain
“characters that behave in outrageous
highly exaggerated ways that are utterly
Speculative Fiction impossible.” (Big Mama and Mr. Bean)

•It comes from the word speculate which

means to think about something and make
•Magical Powers - include stories in which
guesses about it.
character, world, and/or items possess
•It is a broad genre that encompasses magical powers. (Harry Potter and Lord of
stories that take place in imaginary world as the Ring)
a result of one or more

• “what if…?”
•Embellished Fairy Tales - are fairy tales
that have been embellished to include more
character development, description of
setting, and fuller story. (Maleficent)
 •Apocalyptic Fiction – deals with the end of
civilization either through nuclear war,
•Extraordinary Worlds - in these stories plague, or some other general disaster. Ex.
characters from the normal world enter an 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and
extraordinary world by some means. Independence Day
(Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and
Alice in Wonderland)

•Supernatural Elements - are stories which •Post-Apocalyptic Fiction – is set in a world

contain supernatural elements- often scary or civilization after such a disaster. The time
stories. (Goosebumps and The Folk Keeper) frame maybe after or some time later when
the existence of civilization before the
catastrophe has been forgotten. Ex. The
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, World
War Z by Max Brooks, and The Handmaid’s
Tale by Margaret Atwood
•Time Slips - are stories which show
characters travel through time by some
means except a time machine. (Super Book
and Ang Mahiwagang Baul) •Alternate History – is set in worlds in which
one or more historical events unfold
differently from how it did in reality. It is
based on the idea that for every event that
•High Fantasy - this category includes myth
occurs or a decision made in our reality,
fantasy, gothic fantasy, epic/heroic fantasy,
there is another place (Parallel Universe)
and sword and sorcery fantasy. Setting is a
where the event or decision turned out
secondary world. “Noble characters,
differently. Ex. Napoleon in America by
archetypes, and elevated style” – Tynn,
Shannon Selin, Age of Aztec by James
Zahrski, and Boyer (1979)
Lovegrove, X-Men: Days of Future

Sub-Genres of Speculative Fiction

•Utopian Fiction – it presents a that is

ideally perfect in all aspects of society. Ex.
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, The Giver,
and The Magellanic Cloud by Stanislaw
Lem

•Dystopian Fiction – it presents a futuristic,

imagined world in which there is only an
illusion of a perfect society, but is in fact
one which is oppressed through corporate,
bureaucratic, technological, moral, or
totalitarian control. Ex. V for Vendetta by
Alan Moore and Divergent by Veronica Roth
 • It preserves a moment of history, not just
a documentation of dates and occurrences,
MEMOIR but through the eyes of a person who has
really lived it.
French word 'memoire' which means
"memory" or "reminiscence".

• sub-genre of creative nonfiction that • There is a certain degree of emotion and

recounts the experiences of someone's life. subjectivity involved because it includes the
author's personal feelings and is told solely
• usually involves a public portion of the from his perspective.
writer's life as it relates to a historic event

• Memoirs can be great opportunity to

BIOGRAPHIES focus awareness on issues that may not
otherwise be given much notice
• are account of one's life written by another
person. These are heavily based on
research

recounts a more general, broader story of

one's life. STEPS IN WRITING A MEMOIR

DIARY 1. Choose an event in your life that is

important to you.
• on the other hand is a day-to-day account
of a person's life, and is thus an Immediate 2. Begin at the beginning.
recording of personal experiences.
3. Layer in the details and use imagery.

4. Add a reflection.
MEMOIR

• rely mostly on memory and recollection.

• highlights

• concern a very specific life event

• it is written sometime after the significant

period of one's life, allows for profound
reflection on the part of the writer.

SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMOIR

• A Memoir can be a powerful means of

chronicling a historical episode through one
person's firsthand experience of that event.