LITERARY Genres

There are actually two types of literature: the prose and the poetry.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in the tranquility.

While prose would be a spontaneous flow of text thus creating different words, sentences paragraphs being mold into a story.

Fictional Literature:
Drama: Drama is the theatrical dialogue performed on stage, it consists of 5 acts. Tragedy, comedy and melodrama are the sub types of drama.

Tragedy: It is a story of the major character who faces bad luck. Tragedy, elements of horrors and struggle usually concludes with the death of a person.

Comedy: The lead character overcomes the conflicts and overall look of the comedy is full of laughter and the issues are handled very lightly.

The elements used in the comedy are romanticism, exaggeration, surprises and a comic view of life.

Prose Literature: History, journalism, philosophy, fiction and fantasy writings, scientific writings, children's literature authors and writers are included in Prose Literature.

Myth: Myths are the fairy tales with lots of adventure, magic and it lacks scientific proof. Nursery rhymes, songs and lullabies are forms of myths that strike the interest of children. Creative and nature myth are stories of the stars and moon. Magic tales are wonderful tales of quests and fantasy. Hero myths are ideal heroes of adventure.

Short story: The small commercial fiction, true or imaginary, smaller than a novel is known as short story. Short stories are well grouped into easy beginning, concrete theme, some dialogs and ends with resolution. They are oral and short-lived which have gossip, joke, fable, myth, parable, hearsay and legend.

Novel: Novel can be based on comic, crime, detective, adventurous, romantic or political story divided into many parts.

Folk Tale: Folk Tales are traditional stories that have been creating interest since ancient times. The children and old persons like religious story, magic and superstition as well. Fable, tall tales, cumulative, trickster and proverbs are the sub categories of folk tales. Mythology or legend is the ancient religious stories of origin and human civilization.


Nonfiction Literature:

Nonfiction Literature is opposite to fiction as it is informative and comprises the interesting facts with analysis and illustrations.

Main types of Non- fiction literature:

Autobiography and Biography: An autobiography is the story of the author’s own life.

Essay: Generally the authors’ point of view about any particular topic in a detailed way is an essay. Essay has simple way of narrating the main subject; therefore they are descriptive, lengthy, subject oriented and comparative.