1. Literature can be classified into four main categories: prose, poetry, drama, and essay.
2. Prose uses ordinary language without a consistent meter and is organized into paragraphs. It can be fiction like novels and short stories or non-fiction like biographies and histories.
3. Poetry uses stylized language and rhythm organized into lines and stanzas. Common types are narrative, dramatic, and lyric poetry.
4. Drama is a serious play meant to be performed on stage with dialogue and actions. Kinds of drama include tragedies, comedies, and historical plays.
1. Literature can be classified into four main categories: prose, poetry, drama, and essay.
2. Prose uses ordinary language without a consistent meter and is organized into paragraphs. It can be fiction like novels and short stories or non-fiction like biographies and histories.
3. Poetry uses stylized language and rhythm organized into lines and stanzas. Common types are narrative, dramatic, and lyric poetry.
4. Drama is a serious play meant to be performed on stage with dialogue and actions. Kinds of drama include tragedies, comedies, and historical plays.
1. Literature can be classified into four main categories: prose, poetry, drama, and essay.
2. Prose uses ordinary language without a consistent meter and is organized into paragraphs. It can be fiction like novels and short stories or non-fiction like biographies and histories.
3. Poetry uses stylized language and rhythm organized into lines and stanzas. Common types are narrative, dramatic, and lyric poetry.
4. Drama is a serious play meant to be performed on stage with dialogue and actions. Kinds of drama include tragedies, comedies, and historical plays.
1. Literature can be classified into four main categories: prose, poetry, drama, and essay.
2. Prose uses ordinary language without a consistent meter and is organized into paragraphs. It can be fiction like novels and short stories or non-fiction like biographies and histories.
3. Poetry uses stylized language and rhythm organized into lines and stanzas. Common types are narrative, dramatic, and lyric poetry.
4. Drama is a serious play meant to be performed on stage with dialogue and actions. Kinds of drama include tragedies, comedies, and historical plays.
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Generic Classifications of
Literature Literature 1. Prose 3. Drama
2. Poetry 4. Essay 1. Prose
• It uses a spoken or written language
without metrical regularity.
• It is organized in sentences and
paragraphs.
• It imitates the spoken language.
Types of Prose • Fiction- stories based on the writer’s imagination • Non- Fiction- works of facts and theories Fiction • Short stories • Novels • Myths/legends/fables • Parables/ anecdotes • Romances • Epics • Plays Non-Fiction • Letters • Journals/ Diaries • Biographies • Autobiographies • Histories • Newspapers • Speech/Oration 2.Poetry • It is written with rhythm and is organized in lines and groups lines called stanzas.
• It is highly imaginative and written in
condensed language, stylized syntax, and figures of speech not found in ordinary communication. Types of Poetry • Narrative Poetry- • Dramatic Poetry-tells describes important stories in dialogue of details in life following play rhymes, repeating the order of events rhymes and other either real or imaginary poetic elements
• Lyric Poetry-any short poem which is song-like
Narrative Poetry
Epic- a lengthy narrative poem in elevated
language celebrating the adventures and achievements of a legendary or traditional hero Metrical Tales-tales written in verse and classified as either ballad or metrical romance. -a narrative poem consisting usually of a single series of connective events that are simple idylls or home tales, love tales, tales of supernatural or tales written for a strong moral purpose in verse form.
Ballad-narrative song: a song or poem, especially a
traditional one or one in a traditional style, telling a story in a number of short regular stanzas, often with a refrain -concerned with some strongly emotional event -halfway between the lyric and epic Metrical Romance- a metrical tale composed of a long rambling love story in verse -centered around the adventure of knights and lords and their royal ladies during the age of chivalry Metrical Allegory- an extended narrative that carries a second meaning along with the surface story. Things and actions are symbolic. 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 restraints of modern civilization. Lyric Poetry Haiku-a form of Japanese poetry with 17 syllables in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often describing nature or a season Ode-serious lyric poetry which commemorates important public events -Consists of stanzas with the same pattern of rhythm and rhyme Elegy- common lyrics that deals with life and death -it mourns the death of a loved one Sonnet- a short poem with 14 lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections. There are many rhyming patterns for sonnets, and they are usually written in iambic pentameter(five beat poetic line). Song- a lyric poem in a regular pattern to set music. - composed of twelve syllables (dodecasyllabic) and slowly sung to the accompaniment of guitar or banduria. Corridos/Kuridos- have measures of eight syllables (octosyllabic) and recited to a material beat. 3. Essay
It is a short analytic, descriptive, or
interpretive piece of literary or journalistic prose dealing with a specific topic. It is a short literary composition which is expository in nature. The author shares some of his thoughts, feelings, experiences, or observations on some aspects of life that have interested him. 4. Drama It is an exciting, tense, and gripping events and actions, or an exciting, tense, and gripping quality, either in a work of art or in a real-life.
It is a serious play written for performance on
stage, television, or radio. Kinds of Drama Tragedy- a play which the leading character overcomes trouble of some kind.
Comedy-a play which the leading character
overcomes obstacles placed in his way and wins in the conflict; ends happily Farce- a comedy which the situations are too ridiculous; situations are beyond reality
Pantomime- the entire story is told by
action; can be comedy or tragedy Historical Play- dramatized some event of history
Puppet Play- some parts are acted by
puppets or marionettes
Plays of Fantasy- actions could not take place
in real life but only in the imagination of the writer; full of improbable actions