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    This document outlines and defines different literary types and forms, including prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose. For prose fiction, it discusses myths, legends, parables, fables, fairy tales, short stories, novels, and novellas. For poetry, it covers lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry. Drama is defined as a story acted out, and tragedy and comedy are discussed. Finally, nonfiction prose includes autobiographies, biographies, character sketches, diaries/journals, editorials, and essays.

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    This document outlines and defines different literary types and forms, including prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose. For prose fiction, it discusses myths, legends, parables, fables, fairy tales, short stories, novels, and novellas. For poetry, it covers lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry. Drama is defined as a story acted out, and tragedy and comedy are discussed. Finally, nonfiction prose includes autobiographies, biographies, character sketches, diaries/journals, editorials, and essays.

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    LITERARY TYPES AND FORMS

    A. PROSE FICTION presents a story


    that is invented and not literally true.
    -It is written to read rather than acted
    or performed, and the events depicted
    are told to us by a NARRATOR, not
    enacted or dramatized.
    1. Myth is often a STORY OF ORIGIN,
    how the world and everything in it came
    to be.

    2. Legend comes from the Latin


    adjective legenda. It refers to
    unverified story handed down from
    earlier
    times,
    especially
    one
    popularly believed to be historical.
    3. Parable is a simple story
    illustrating a MORAL or RELIGIOUS
    LESSON.

    4. Fable is usually short narrative


    making an edifying or cautionary
    point and often employing as
    character animals that speak and act
    like humans.
    5. Fairy Tale is a kind of folktale or
    fable. Marvelous and magical things
    happen to characters in fairy tales.

    6. Short Story is a piece of prose


    fiction marked by relative shortness
    and density, organized into a plot and
    with some kind of denouement at the
    end.
    7. Novel is a fictional prose narrative
    of considerable length, typically
    having a plot that is unfolded by the
    action, speech, and thoughts of
    numerous characters placed in a
    number of different situations.

    8. Novella is a fictional
    prose narrative that is longer
    than a short story, but shorter
    than a novel. It is form in its
    own right.

    B. POETRY is piece of art written by a poet in


    meter or verse expressing various emotions
    which are expressed by the use of variety of
    techniques including metaphors, similes and
    onomatopoeia.
    1. Lyric Poetry a comparative short, nonnarrative poem in which a single speaker
    presents a state of mind or an emotional state.
    a. Song
    b. Sonnet
    c. Elegy
    d. Ode

    2. Narrative Poetry gives a verbal


    representation, in verse, of a
    sequence of connected events.
    a.
    b.
    c.

    Ballad
    Metrical Romance
    Epic

    3. Dramatic Poetry like narrative


    poetry, tells stories. But in dramatic
    poetry, the poet lets one or more of
    the storys characters act out the
    story.
    a.
    b.

    Dramatic Monologue
    Soliloquy

    C. DRAMA comes from the Greek word dran


    which means to do or to act.
    - It is a story acted out. It shows people
    going through some eventful period in their
    lives, seriously or humorously.
    1. Tragedy refers to a drama in which a
    heroic protagonist meets an unhappy or
    calamitous end, brought about by some fatal
    flaw of character, by circumstances outside his
    or her control, or simply by destiny.
    a.
    b.

    Tragicomedy
    Melodrama

    2. Comedy depicts humorous incidents


    in which the protagonist are faced with
    moderate difficulties but overcome them
    and the play ends happily.
    a.
    b.
    c.
    d.
    e.

    Satirical Comedy
    The Comedy of Manners
    Romantic Comedy
    Black Comedy
    Farce

    D. NONFICTION PROSE presents factual


    information or expresses a viewpoint.
    1. Autobiography which comes from the Greek
    words auton, self, bios, life and graphein,
    write, is a biography written by the person
    himself or herself.
    2. Biography which comes from the Greek
    words bios meaning life, and graphein
    meaning write is a personal account of a
    persons life written by another person.

    3. Character Sketch is an
    abbreviated portrayal of a particular
    characteristic of people.
    4. Diary or Journal is a daily record
    of events in a persons life.

    5. Editorial is a statement or an
    article by a news organization,
    newspaper
    or
    magazine
    that
    expresses the opinion of the editor,
    editorial board, or publisher.
    6. Essay is a brief work of nonfiction
    that offers an opinion on a subjects.

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    Arcilla, Amee Joy


    Alpad, Noriana

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