Literary Genre

Literary Genre

1. Chivalric Romance is a type of poem characteristic of the Spanish, Iberian and Latin American literary tradition, composed using the homonymous metrical combination. It should not be confused with the narrative subgenre of the same name.

2. The epic is an epic or narrative story, written most of the time in long verse, or prose, which consists of the extensive narration of transcendental actions or worthy of memory for a people around the figure of a hero representative of their most esteemed virtues.

3. A "fabliau" is a tale written with the purpose of provoking laughter, to achieve this it focuses on real and vulgar environments and characters.

4. A Breton lay, also known as a narrative lay or simply lay, is a form of medieval literary romance in French and English of the period. They are short rhymed tales of love and chivalry, often with supernatural ingredients or Celtic-inspired fairy tales.

5. Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson