Q1

• Two main divisions of literature

  • Prose
  • Poetry
• Prose

  Written in paragraph form
• Poetry

  Written in stanza or verse form
• Language Prose

  Expressed in ordinary form
• Poetic language

  Expressed in metrical, rhythmical, and figurative language
• Appeal of literature

  • Prose: To the intellect
  • Poetry: To the emotion
• Aims of literature

  • To convince
  • To instruct
  • To imitate
  • To reflect
  • To stir the imagination
  • To set an idea of how life should be
• Types of prose

  • Prose Drama
  • Essay
  • Prose Fiction
  • Biography and Autobiography
  • Letter
  • Diary
  • Journal
• Prose Drama


  • A drama in prose form, consisting entirely of dialogues in prose, meant to be acted on stage
• Essay


  • A short literary composition which is expository in nature, where the author shares thoughts, feelings, experiences, and observations
• Prose Fiction


  • Something invented, imagined, or feigned to be true
• Novel


  • A long fictitious narrative with a complicated plot, made up of chapters
• Short story


  • A fictitious narrative compressed into one unit of time, place, and action, dealing with a single character interest or emotion
• Biography

  • A story of a certain person's life written by another who knows the person well
• Autobiography

  • A written account of a person's life written by themselves
• Letter

  • A prose form which by the force of its style and the importance of its statements becomes an object of interest in its own right
• Diary

  • A daily written record of the writer's own experiences, thoughts, activities, or observations
• Journal


  • A magazine or periodical especially of a serious or learned nature
• Other forms of prose

  • Historical prose
  • Scientific prose
  • Satirical prose
  • Current publications
  • Book review
  • Travel
  • Parody
  • Speech
  • Address
  • Lecture
  • Sermon
• Historical prose


  • A prose form dealing with historical events
• Scientific prose


  • A prose form that deals with the subject of science
• Satirical prose


  • A prose form that ridicules the foolishness of men
• Current publications


  • Books, magazines, or newspapers that are commonly known or accepted or in general usage at the time specified or, it is unspecified at the present time
• Book review

  • An article dealing with the contents, literary worth, etc. of a book especially a recently published book
• Travel


  • A written account of trips, journeys, tours, etc. taken by the writer
• Parody


  • An imitation of another author's work, where ridicule is the main objective
• Speech


  • The general word for a discourse delivered to an audience, whether prepared or impromptu
• Address


  • A formal, carefully prepared speech, usually attributed importance to the speaker or the speech
• Lecture


  • A carefully prepared speech intended to inform or instruct the audience
• Sermon


  • A speech by religious people intended to give religious or moral instruction usually based on scriptural text, like a bible
• Characteristics of poetry

  • Poetry is a concentrated thought
  • Poetry is a kind of word-music
  • Poetry expresses all the senses
  • Poetry answers our demand for rhythm
  • Poetry is observation plus imagination
• Types of poetry

  • Narrative Poetry
  • Lyric Poetry
• Narrative Poetry


  • A poem that tells a story
• Epic


  • A long narrative poem of the largest proportions, a tale centering about a hero concerning the beginning, continuance, and the end of events of great significance
• Types of Epic


  • Popular or Ancient Epic
  • Literary or Modern Epic
• Ballad


  • The simplest type of narrative poetry, a short narrative poem telling a single incident in simple meter and stanzas, intended to be sung
• Popular Ballad

  • A ballad of wide workmanship telling some simple incidents of adventure, cruelty, passion, or superstition, an incident that shows the primary instincts of man influenced by the restraint of modern civilization
• Lyric Poetry


  • A poem that is very personal in nature, expressing the author's own thoughts, feelings, moods, and reflections in musical language
• Ode


  • A lyric poem of some length, serious in subject and dignified in style, written in a spirit of praise of some persons or things
• Elegy

  • A poem written on the death of a friend of the poet, with the purpose of praising the friend and coming to terms with grief