Literary Genres

Literary Genres

1. Poetry

   • It is a verse written to create a response of thought and feeling of the reading.
     • Pastorals: a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life
     • Lyrics: expressing direct usually intense personal emotion especially in a manner suggestive of song
     • Song: a short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung.
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   • Ballads: a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next
   • Sonnets: A sonnet is a poem generally structured in the form of 14 lines, usually iambic pentameter, that expresses a thought or idea and utilizes an established rhyme scheme
   • Poems: a piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery.

2. Drama

   • It's a composition involving conflict, action, crisis, and atmosphere designed to be acted by players on a stage before an audience.
     • Tragedies: branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual.
     • Pantomime: any of various dramatic or dancing performances in which a story is told by expressive bodily or facial movements of the performers
     • Tragicomedies: a play or novel containing elements of both comedy and tragedy.
     • Farce: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations
     • Melodrama: a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.
     • MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE)
   • Comedies: professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh

3. Fiction

   • It's a literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation.
     • Myths: a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events
     • Novels: a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.
     • Short stories: a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
     • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN
   • Legends: traditional story or group of stories told about a particular person or place
   • Tales: is a comparatively simple narrative, either fictitious or true, written or recounted orally in prose or in verse.

4. Non fiction

   • It refers to stories that are based on events that actually happened in reality; the characters are real people, too.
     • Autobiographies: a history of a person's life written or told by that person.
     • Speeches: the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds
     • Essays: is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
     • Biographies: A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.
     • Diaries: a private daily record of one’s experiences and feelings; journal, daybook, log, chronicle
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