Prose and poem

• Ballads: Poems that narrate a story, often focusing on folklore, love, or tragedy, and usually set to music.
• Novel: A long work of fiction, typically telling a complex story involving characters and events.
• Short Story: A brief work of fiction focusing on a single plot, theme, or character.
• Plays: Written works intended for performance on a stage, involving dialogue and actions by characters.
• Legends: Traditional stories often based on historical events or figures, but with exaggerated or supernatural elements.
• Fables: Short stories featuring animals or inanimate objects with human-like qualities, conveying moral lessons.
• Anecdotes: Short, personal accounts or stories, often amusing or interesting, based on real-life experiences.
• Narrative poetry:
• Essay: A short piece of nonfiction writing expressing an author's perspective on a particular subject.
• Parables: Short narratives with a moral lesson, typically religious or philosophical.
• Metrical Tale: A poem that tells a story in a straightforward, metrical manner.
• News: Information presented in a factual and objective manner, reporting current events.
• Oration: A formal speech, often delivered with eloquence and persuasion.
• Biography: An account of a person's life, written by someone else.
• Epic: A lengthy, narrative poem recounting heroic deeds and adventures.
• Fairytales: Stories often involving magical elements, mythical creatures, and happy endings.
• Lyric poetry refers to poems meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre, but now applies to any type of poetry that expresses emotions and feelings of the poet.
• Folksong are short poems intended to be sung, with a common theme of love, despair, grief, doubt, joy, hope, and sorrow.
• Sonnets are lyric poems of 14 lines dealing with an emotion, a feeling, or an idea.
• Elegy is a lyric poem which expresses feeling of grief and melancholy and whose theme is death.
• Ode is a poem of a noble feeling expressed with dignity with no definite number of syllables with or no definite number of lines in a stanza.
• Psalm (Dalit) is a song praising God or the Saints and contains a philosophy of life.
• Song ( Awit) has a measure of twelve syllables and is slowly sung to the accompaniment of a guitar or a bandurria, an example of this is Florante and Laura.
• Corridos ( Kuridos) have measures of eight syllables and are recited to a martial beat, an example of this is Ibong Adarna.
• Comedy comes from the Greek word “Komos” meaning festivity and revelry, it is usually light and with the purpose of amusing people and usually has a happy ending.
• Melodrama is usually used in musical plays with the opera, it arouses immediate and intense emotion and is usually sad but there is a happy ending for the principal character.
• Tragedy involves the hero struggling mightily against dynamic forces; he meets death or ruin without success and satisfaction obtained by the protagonists in a comedy.
• Farce is an exaggerated comedy, it seeks to arouse mirth by laughable lines; situations are too ridiculous to be true; the characters seem to be caricatures and the motives undignified and absurd.
• Social Poems are forms either purely comic or tragic and picture the life of today, they may aim to bring about change.
• Riddles are statements or questions or phrases having double or veiled meanings put forth as puzzles to be solved.
• Proverb ( from the Latin word provebvium ) also called a byword or nayword, is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity, it is often metaphorical.
• Folklore refers to culture including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions of that culture, subculture, or group.
• Folktales are traditional narratives, usually anonymous, handed down orally—e.g., fables, fairytales, legends, etc.
• Electronic book or e-book is an e-text that forms the digital media that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed material.
• Blog is a composition of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blog as there are people, blogs are alternatively called web blogs or weblogs.
• Dissertation is a document that presents the authors research and findings and is submitted in support of.
• Thesis is a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research findings.
• Folk Song is one of a class of songs long popular with the common people.
• Folk speech is the speech of the common people, distinguished from that of the educated class.