GRAPHIC FICTION VS. FLASH FICTION

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TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE: Modern literary genres gain popularity due to the advent of technologies such as internet and other virtual media which become the major platforms of most of modern literary texts like graphic and flash fictions.

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Features of Graphic Fiction according to Singh (2012)

1. 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. 2. Graphic novels encourage interactivity in the minds of the reader as he fills in the blanks between image panels. 3. Filling in the blanks between image panels makes the reader imagine the actions portrayed in the story. 4. The language, syntax and meaning of a graphic novel spring primarily through the relationship between images than words. 5. Graphic fiction combines book and screen

Brevity

According to Sustana (2020(, most of the flash fictions have these common characteristics: 1. Flash fiction presents the story with the fewest words as possible.

Complete Plot

According to Sustana (2020(, most of the flash fictions have these common characteristics: 2. Flash fiction emphasizes the development of plot. It has a beginning, middle, and ending of the story.

Surprising Ending

According to Sustana (2020(, most of the flash fictions have these common characteristics: 3. The successful hallmark of a flash fictions is its twist at the end of the story.

Graphic Novel

Another term for Graphic Fiction

Graphic Fiction

It is a comic book narrative that is equivalent in form and dimension to the prose novel (Campbell 200, 81). The pictures are arranged in sequenced in image panels and dialogues are written in speech bubbles. The illustrations allow the readers to imagine and experience the characters and events in the story.

Graphic Fiction

It is a creative piece written in comic form.

Flash Fiction

It is a imaginative literature of extreme brevity. It could range from a word to a thousand (Gacusan 2018). it is known as micro stories, postcard fiction, nanotales, and short shorts.

Flash Fiction

It is a really short written creative piece usually consisting of a few hundred words.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE: Graphic fiction and flash fiction are two different genres of modern literature.


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