types of literature

• works based on factual information. It includes Biographies,Autobiographies/Memoirs and Essay
• Narratives created from the authors imagination. it includes genres like:novels, short stories, novellas, fantasies
• LITERATURE -collected oral and written works of a society and depict the people's beliefs, values, morals and aspirations, as well as their struggles in life
• types of literature?

  prose poetry
• PROSE -literary works written in an ordinary language
• POETRY -literary works written in verses
• types of prose?

  fiction non-fiction
• types of fiction?

  • prose allegory
  • prose narratives
  • prose romance
  • prose drama
• PROSE ALLEGORY - a prose form which the characters, ideas and actions stand for something else or for a system of ideas with implied meanings
• types of prose allegory

  • fable
  • myths
  • legends
  • parable
  • prose romance
  • fairy tales
• FABLE - the character are usually animals talking like human beings
• MYTHS -explain the origin of the world and human kind
• LEGENDS - a non-historical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical
• PARABLE - a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
• PROSE ROMANCE - stories of high culture, chivalric, magical, and unrealistic
• types of prose romance

  • fairy tales
• FAIRY TALES - stories about magical and imaginary people and places usually have a happy ending
• types of prose narratives

  • short story
  • novel
  • novelette
• SHORT STORY -a brief narrative that concentrates on one situation and involves two or three characters
• NOVEL -an extend narrative that includes more characters and complicated plot
• NOVELETTE -is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel
• types of prose drama

  • comedy
  • tragedy
• COMEDY - aims primarily to amuse by its humorous speech and ends happily
• TRAGEDY -morally significant struggle which end disastrously
• kinds of nonfiction

  • essay
  • journals
  • memoir
  • diaries
  • documentaries
  • scientific papers
  • biographies
  • autobiographies
• ESSAY - a piece of writing written from the writer's personal point of view
• JOURNALS - record of thought, feelings, observations and reflection of person's experience
• MEMOIR - reflects the writer's own experiences and memories
• DIARIES - personal acount of significant event that happen in the life of a person
• DOCUMENTARIES - films, motion pictures intended to "document reality,primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record
• SCIENTIFIC PAPERS - research works conducted for sharing or reviewing by others
• BIOGRAPHIES - an account of a person's life written by another person
• AUTOBIOGRAPHIES - an account of a person's life, written by that person
• types of poetry

  • narrative poetry
  • lyric poetry
  • dramatic poetry
• types of narrative poetry

  • epic
  • ballad
• NARRATIVE POETRY - tells a story in richly imaginative and rythmical language
• EPIC - a long narrative poem divided into distinct parts and episodes bound together by common relationship to a great hero
• BALLAD - a short narrative poem intended to be sung
• types of lyric poem

  • ode
  • elegy
  • song
  • sonnet
• LYRIC POEM - expresses personal thoughts and feelings