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Welcome to

21 Century
st

Literature
Stories are told in dialogue thru social Text-talk novel
networks.

In telling a story, writers usually combine


three media platforms like books, movies Digi-fiction

and an internet website.

Blog, email and IM are used as narrative Text-talk novel


formats

It is a humorous fictional genre dealing with


Chick lit
issues on modern womanhood.

Comic books originally published in Japan. manga


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1. How does the speaker feel whenever it
rings?

2. How did she react when she realized she


QUESTIONS was already late?

3. Would you react the same way, if this


happens to you?

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What is Pete always wearing whenever Jim
sees him?
After Jim won, Pete went missing. Who
convinced Jim to spend Pete’s half of
the money for house renovations?
QUESTIONS
What is the “familiar red” Jim unearthed
in the garden one spring that made him
horrified?

What happened to Jim in the end?

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◦ The pictures ◦ The
◦ is a comic
are arranged illustrations
book
in allow the
narrative
sequenced readers to
that is
GRAPHIC equivalent
in image imagine and
FICTION in form and
panels and experience
dialogues the
dimension
are written characters
to the prose
in speech and events in
novel
bubbles. the story.

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Autographic forms are the marks of author’s
handwriting which creates an impact that
the whole novel is a manuscript and thus
provides a sense of intimacy.
features of
graphic fiction or
graphic novel

Graphic novels encourage interactivity in the


minds of the reader as he fills in the blanks
between image panels.

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Filling in the blanks between image panels
makes the reader imagine the actions
portrayed in the story.

features of The language, syntax and meaning of a graphic


novel spring primarily through the relationship
graphic fiction or between images than words.
graphic novel

Graphic fiction combines book and screen.

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Examples:
“In the Shadow of No Tower: 9/11” by Art
Spiegelmen in 2004
which tells the story about the terrorist
attack on September 11 in America. This also
depicts the traumatic and tragic experiences
of American people during the 9/11 terrorist
attack.

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◦
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“The Barn Owl’s Wondrous
Capers” by Sarnath Banerjee in
2009 portrays 18th century
Calcutta exploiting the myth of the
“Wandering Jew

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◦
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“Louis Riel” by Chester Brown in
2003 is a fictionalized violent
rebellion in the 19th Century on
the Canadian praire who led by
Riel.

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◦ is imaginative
◦ It is known as
literature of
micro stories,
extreme
postcard
Flash fiction brevity. It
fiction,
could range
nanotales and
from a word to
short shorts.
a thousand

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Brevity. Flash fiction presents the story
with fewest words as possible.

Complete plot. Flash fiction emphasizes the


development of plot. It has a beginning, middle
features of and ending of the story.
flash fiction

Surprising ending. The successful hallmark of a


flash fiction is
its twist at the end of the story.

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Taylor Swift, by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

a weird story of how anyone can order a


perfectly clone of Taylor Swift at his
doorstep.

First line: You’re in love; it’s


great, you swipe on your phone
and order: the next day a
Taylor Swift clone shows up at
your house.

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◦ “Angels and Blueberries” by Tara
Campbell is a story of various
◦ explanations for the color of the sky
that involves angels and blueberries.
◦
◦ First lines: “Why is the sky blue?” you
ask. Well, it all depends on who’s
answering.

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◦ “Unnecessary Things” by Tatyana
Tolstaya is a story of finding an old
and torn teddy bear, “unnecessary
things” (items that do not serve any
useful purpose), that she adored as a
child.

◦ First lines: This Teddy bear once had


amber eyes made from special glass —
each one had a pupil and an iris. The
bear itself was gray and stiff, with wiry
fur. I adored him.
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Answer:
Answer What’s More
Activity 1: Finding Similarities

Assessment 1: Follow the rubric

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