Blog

 It’s the shortened version of the term “web blog”.

 It is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary.
 The words “weblog” was coined by John Barger in 1997 and then shortened to “Blog” by
Peter Merholz in 1999.

Blogger

 A person who keeps a blog

Ann Luna
 She is an education major from Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila.
 She is the writer of You are not Your Facebook Profile and
HAHA.

You are not Your Facebook Profile

1. A bog entry that tells you how you are not limited to what social media depict you to
be.

Lyrical Essay
 It is a form of creative nonfiction that combines both prose and poetry.
 It is a subgenre of the personal essay.
Unique features of Lyrical Essay
 Combine prose and poetry
 Constructed from a distillation of ideas
 Mentions but doesn’t expound
 Suggestive but not exhaustive
 Relies on associations, imagery, and connotation
 Makes reference to other genres, such as film, music, literature
 Arranged in fragments as a mosaic
 Based on stories that are metaphors
 Based on intimate voice
 Crafted with lyrical language

Passage
 A lyrical essay written by Charlotte Aninion de Guzman

In the Darkness of the Universe

 A lyrical essay written by Samantha Kirsten Lucas

Photographic Essay or Photo Essay

 It is a series of pictures that evokes an emotion, conveys an idea, or tells a story.
 It often show pictures in deep emotional stages.
 A collection of images that are placed in a specific order to tell the
progression of events, emotions, and concepts.
Types of Photo Essay
 narrative photo essay – tells a story through a sequence of events or action
 thematic photo essay – focuses on a central theme and presents photos relevant to
that theme
 Elements of Photo Essay
 story
 range of photos
 order of the photos
 information and emotion
 captions

5 Photo Essay Tips

 Find a topic
 Do your research
 Find the “real story”
 Every dynamic story is built on a set of core values and emotions that touch the
heart of its audience
 Plan your shots

Speculative Fiction
 Is a broad genre that encompasses stories that take place in imaginary worlds as as
a result of one or more “what if” questions.

Sub-genre of speculative fiction

 Science fiction – deals mainly with the impact of actual or imagined science upon
society or individuals.
 Fantasy – uses magic and supernatural elements in plot, theme and setting
 Utopian fiction – presents a world that is ideally perfect in all aspects of society
 Dystopian fiction – 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.
 Apocalyptic fiction – deals with the end of civilization either through nuclear war,
plague or some other general disaster.
 Post-Apocalyptic fiction – is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster.
 Alternate History – is set in worlds in which one or more historical events unfold
differently from how it did in reality.
Dystopia
 Refer to a state or condition in which life is extremely bad.
Harrison Bergeron
 A dystopian fiction written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
 A dystopian fiction that explores the issue of equality.
Divergent
 A young adult dystopian novel written by Veronica Roth
 It explores the issue of individuality and belonging.

Memoir
 From the French word mémoire, meaning memory or reminiscence.
 A subgenre of creative nonfiction that recounts the experiences of someone’s life.
 Biography

 An account of one’s life written by another person

Autobiography

 It covers the author’s entire life to the present, and is expected to include details
about his or her public and private life.

Night
 A memoir written by Elie Wiesel
 A memoir about Elie’s experience with his father at Nazi concentration camps from
1944-45 during the Holacaust.

Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel

 He was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political
activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor.

I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

 A memoir written by Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai
 She is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.

Steps in Writing a Memoir

1. Choose an event in your life that is important to you
2. Begin at the beginning
3. Layer in the details and use imagery
4. Add a reflection

Metafiction
 It is fiction about fiction.
 Fiction that “self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction. It is fiction that
systematically draws attention to itself as literary work.
Continuity of Parks
 A metafiction written by Julio Cortazar

The Tale of the Beedle the Bard

 A collection of stories written for young wizards and witches

 It appears in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows

Comic book
 Refers to any format that uses a combination of frames, words and pictures to
convey meaning and tell a story.
 Comic books are periodicals. They are produced monthly and usually have a good
amount of action that progresses the story line forward to the next issue.

Graphic Novel
 Narrative in comic book format
  Graphic novels are read like a book. They delve deeper into the story lines of
characters and history, not just action, and they complete the full arch of a narrative
by the end of the novel.
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
 Is a two book graphic novel written and illustrated by Art
Speigelman, narrating his father’s experiences during the Hoocaust
in Germany.

The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #36

 Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

 Penciler: John Romita Jr.
 Inker:Scott Hana
 Colorist:Dan Kemp
 Letterers: Richard Starkings & Wes Abbott

Digital media
 Digitized content-texts, audio, video and graphics that can be transmitted over the
internet or computer networks.

Popular types of Digital Media

 Podcast is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and
listen to.
 Electronic book (or e-book) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting
of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic
devices.
 Digital storytelling is a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to
share aspects of their story.
 Video blog or video log, usually shortened to vlog is a form of blog for which the medium is
video.

Spoken Word Poetry

 Poetry intended for performance onstage for a live audience.
 A performance art that is word based.

5 tips on Spoken Word

1. Choose a subject and have attitude.
2. Pick your poetic devices
3. Performance
4. Memorization
5. Power Poetry

To This Day
 Spoken word poetry by Shane Koyczan
 A spoken word poem about bullying and its effect on people who experienced it.

What I Will
 Spoken word poetry by Suheir Hammad
 A spoken word poem that refers to the mass murder going on in Palestine.