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Literary Types and Forms

This document summarizes various literary types and forms of prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose. For prose fiction, it describes myths, legends, parables, fables, and fairy tales as well as novels, novellas, and short stories. For poetry, it outlines lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry including songs, sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics. For drama, it defines tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies, and melodramas. Finally, it lists different forms of nonfiction prose such as autobiographies, biographies, character sketches, diaries, editorials, and essays.

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Literary Types and Forms

This document summarizes various literary types and forms of prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose. For prose fiction, it describes myths, legends, parables, fables, and fairy tales as well as novels, novellas, and short stories. For poetry, it outlines lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry including songs, sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics. For drama, it defines tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies, and melodramas. Finally, it lists different forms of nonfiction prose such as autobiographies, biographies, character sketches, diaries, editorials, and essays.

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Literary Types

and Forms
LITERARY TYPES AND FORMS

A.Prose Fiction
B. Poetry
C.Drama
D.Nonfiction Prose
A. PROSE FICTION
• It presents a story that is invented and
not true. It is written to be read rather
than acted or performed, and the events
depicted are told by a narrator, not
enacted nor dramatized.
Myth
• It is often a story of origins, how the world
and everything in it came to be. It orients
people to the metaphysical dimension,
attempts to explain the origins and nature of
the world, as well as certain customs or
practices of human society, validates social
issues, and, on the psychological plane,
addresses oneself to the innermost depths of
the psyche.
THE CREATION (Igorot)
ORIGIN (Bagobo)
Legend
• This refers to an unverified
story handed down from earlier
times, especially one popularly
believed to be historical.
Parable
• A parable is a simple story
illustrating a moral or
religious lesson. E.g. The
Prodigal Son
Fable
• It is a usually short narrative
making an edifying or cautionary
point often employing as characters
animals that speak and act like
humans.
Fairy Tale
• It is a kind of folktale or fable.
Marvelous and magical things
happen to the characters in
fairy tales.
Short Story
• It 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.
Novel
• A novel is a fictional prose narrative of
considerable length, typically having a
plot that is unfolded by the actions,
speech, and thoughts of numerous
characters placed in several different
situations.
Novella
• A novella is a fictional prose
narrative that is longer than a
short story, but shorter than
a novel.
B. POETRY
• POETRY is a piece of art written by a poet in
meter or verse expressing various emotions
which are expressed by the use of a variety of
techniques including metaphors, similes, and
onomatopoeia.
• It is divided into three (3) categories namely
lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry.
1. Lyric Poetry

• Lyric Poetry is a comparatively


short, non-narrative poem in which
a single speaker presents a state of
mind or an emotional state.
Lyric Poetry
• SONG is a musical work, an abstract entity that serves as
an umbrella for many versions or renditions.
• SONNET is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
• ELEGY is a meditative lyric poem lamenting the death of a
public personage or a friend or loved one; by extension, any
reflective lyric on the broader theme of human mortality.
• ODE is a long lyric poem with a serious subject written in
an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.
SONNET
ODE
2. Narrative Poetry
• Narrative Poetry gives a verbal
representation, in verse, of a
sequence of connected events. It
propels characters through a plot. It
is always told by a narrator.
Narrative Poetry
• BALLAD is a song, originally transmitted orally,
which tells a story.
• METRICAL ROMANCE is a poem that tells a story
that ends happily, whether love is involved or not.
• EPIC is an extended narrative poem that operates on
a large scale, both in length and topic. It uses an
elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats
of a legendary hero with the intervention of
supernatural beings.
3. Dramatic Poetry

• Dramatic Poetry like narrative


poetry, tells stories but the poet lets
one or more of the story’s characters
act out of the story.
Dramatic Poetry
• DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE is a
combination of the words dramatic and
monologue.
• SOLILOQUY is a long speech in which
a character who is alone on a stage
expresses his or her private thoughts or
feelings.
C. DRAMA
• DRAMA comes from the Greek
word “dran” which means “to do”
or “to act. It is a story acted out.
• Tragedy and comedy are subgenres
for drama.
Tragedy
• 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.
Tragedy
• TRAGICOMEDY refers to fictional
works that blend aspects of the genres
of tragedy and comedy.
• MELODRAMA uses music to increase
the spectator's emotional response or to
suggest character types.
Comedy
• Comedy depicts humorous
incidents in which protagonists
are faced with moderate
difficulties but overcome them
and play ends happily.
Comedy
• SATIRICAL COMEDY generally ridicules human folly and
associated political, social, or moral problems.
• THE COMEDY OF MANNERS depicts the romantic intrigues
of a sophisticated upper-class including witty.
• ROMANTIC COMEDY involves idealized romantic love, as in
romance.
• BLACK COMEDY induces laughter as a kind of defense
mechanism when a situation, dispassionately considered, would
be simply horrifying.
• FARCE depends upon the ridiculous situations, exaggerated
character types, coarse humor, and horseplay for its comic effects.
D. NONFICTION PROSE

• Nonfiction Prose presents


factual information and
viewpoint.
Nonfiction Prose
• AUTOBIOGRAPHY is a biography
written by the person himself/herself.
• BIOGRAPHY is a personal account of a
person’s life written by another person.
• CHARACTER SKETCH is an
abbreviated portrayal of a particular
characteristic of people.
Nonfiction Prose
• DIARY or JOURNAL is a daily record of
events in a person’s life
• 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.
• ESSAY is a brief work of nonfiction that offers
an opinion on a subject.
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