Ballad

lectures

textbooks
Novels
Short stories
newspaper
Fairy Tales
Sonnet
Haiku
Essays
Ode
Human conversation
Articles
Epic

What is Literature

A latin word “Litera” which means letter.

writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and
universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels,
history, biography, and essays.

Literature is any collection of written work.

Prose
and
Poetry

Prose
Prose means “straightforward”
In writing, prose is a style used that does not follow a structure of rhyming or
meter. Rather, prose follows a grammatical structure using words to compose phrases
that are arranged into sentences and paragraphs.

Types of Prose
Nonfictional - Factual and true events.
E.g. newspapers, magazines, journals, biographies, and textbooks.
Fictional Prose - wholly created from a writer’s imagination. E.g. novels, short
stories
Heroic Prose - writing that is meant to be recited and passed on through oral or
written tradition E.g. Legends, mythology, fables, and parables
Prose Poetry - poetry that is expressed and written in prose form E.g.“Spring Day”
by Amy Lowell.

Poetry
follows a specific rhyme and metric structure. These are often lines and stanzas
within a poem.
Poetry also utilizes more figurative and often ambiguous language that purposefully
leaves room for the readers’ analysis and interpretation.
It is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and
rhythmic language choices as to evoke emotional response.
Forms of Narrative Poetry
Narrative poetry- describes important events either real or imaginary
Epic- extended narrative about heroic exploits under supernatural control. Kinds :
Popular / ancient epic & Modern Epic.
Ballads - shortest and simplest of the narrative poem. Kinds : Love ballads, war
ballads, etc.

Forms of Lyric poetry

Folk songs- short poems intended to be sung.
Sonnets - lyric of poem of 14 lines dealing with an emotion, a feeling or an idea.
Elegy - expresses feelings of grief and melancholy and whose theme is death
Ode, psalms, etc.