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• Prose is a discourse that uses sentences and paragraphs to express ideas, feelings, and actions.
• Short Story focuses on a single main event, involving one or more characters.
• Novel is a long narrative divided into chapters.
• Legend is a fictitious narrative usually about origins, sometimes based on historical people or events, handed from the past.
• Myth deals with the stories about gods and goddesses. It also deals with origins (origin myths) which present theories and phenomena to explain the creation of the world.
• Fable is a fictitious story where characters are anthropomorphized or given human qualities. It illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson.
• Parable refers to stories that are usually biblical in nature.
• Folktale refers to a prose narrative primarily told for amusement and instructional value.
• Biography records the fact events of a person's life written by another person.
• Autobiography deals with facts and events of a person's life written by the person himself.
• Diary is a daily record of events and experiences in the author's life.
• Play is intended to be presented on stage and is divided into acts and scenes.
• Essay is an analytical and interpretative composition about a topic or subject.
• News is an account of everyday events in the society.
• Poetry refers to writings in verse with rhythm and rhyme and is characterized by a melodious tone.
• Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story.
• Epic is an extended narrative of heroic adventures.
• Ballad is the shortest narrative poem which used to be a song accompanying a dance.
• Lyric Poetry is any type of poetry that expresses the feelings and emotions of a writer.
• Folk songs are short poems intended to be sung.
• Sonnet consists of 14 lines with a formal rhyme scheme or pattern.
• Ode expresses lofty praise for some person, place, or event.
• Psalm is a song that praises God.
• Elegy expresses lamentation for a dead loved one.