Monday, June 22, 2009

Literature


LITERATURE – the art of written works

Prose – literature with free form of writing, (e.g. magazines, articles, news, essays biographies, autobiographies, journals, anecdotes, etc.)

Poetry – figurative literary works with metric and well chosen words, which uses figure of speech and imagery, (e.g. songs, poems, epics, corrids, etc.)

TYPES OF POETRY
1.   Lyric – poems that are sung and accompanied by musical ensemble, (e.g. elegy,    epitaphs, psalms, hymns, songs, sonnets, idylls, etc.)
2.      Narrative – poems that tend to tell or narrate stories, (epic, ballad, metrical tales, etc.)

3.      Dramatic (e.g. tragedy, farce, comedy, melodrama, etc.)