Literature

• Prose is defined as a written or oral language without metrical control
• Poetry is the imaginative articulation of emotion, thought or narrative frequeal form and and figurative state.
• Novel is a long narrative divided into chapters. The events are taken from true to life stories and spans a long period of time.
• Short story is a narrative involving one or more characters, one plot and one single impression.
• Plays are presented on stage, divided into acts and have many scenes.
• Legends are fictitious narratives usually about the origin of things, events, or natural phenomena.
• Fables are fictitious stories that deals with animals and inanimate things which speak and act like people, their purpose is to enlighten the minds of children to events that can mold their ways and attitudes.
• Anecdotes are merely products of writer's imagination and the main aim is to bringh lessons to readers.
• Essay expresses the viewpoint or opinion of a writer about a particular problem or event.
• Biography deals with the life of a person which may be about himself or that of others.
• News is a report of everyday events in society, government, science, and industry, accidents or happenings done nationally or not.
• Oration is a formal treatment of a subject and is intended to be spoken in public.
• Fairy tales are wonder tales involving marvelous elements and occurences.
• Parables are short allegorical stories designed to teach a truth, religious principle or moral lesson.
• Narrative poetry is a form that describes important events in life either real or imaginary.
• Epic is an extended narrative about heroic exploits under supernatural control.
• Metrical Tale is a narrative which is written in verse and can be classified as a ballad or a metrical romance
• Ballads are considered the shortest and simplest of the narrative poems
• Lyric Poetry Is 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.
• Folk song are short poems intended to be sung
• 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 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 slowly sung to the accompaniment of a guitar or a bandurria.
• Corridos (Kuridos) has a measures of eight syllables and recited to a marital beat.
• 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 happy ending.
• Melodrama is usually used in musical plays with the opera. It arouses immediate and intense emotion and is usually sad buth there are happy ending for the principal character.
• Tragedy involves the hro struggling mightily against dynamic forces; he meets death or ruin without succes 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 seems to be caricatures and the motives indignified and absurd.
• Social poems are forms either purely comic or tragic and picture the life of today.
• 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.
• Folklore refers to the culture including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbsbsss, 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
• 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 as many as unique types of blog as there are people.
• Dissertatioon is a document that presents the authors research and findings and submitted in support of.
• Thesis is a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research findings
• folk song one of class of songs long popular with the common people