Professional Documents
Culture Documents
GBBB
GBBB
FUNCTIONS
• Entertainment • Social and Political
• Ideological • Moral
• Linguistic • Cultural
• Educational • Historical
• To instruct (for Plato and Horace)
• To delight (for Aristotle and Horace)
• To transport (for Longinus)
LITERARY GENRES
• Fiction: novel, short story
• Nonfiction: essay, editorial, news story, feature story,
biographies, autobiographies
• Poetry : verse, narrative poetry, epic poetry, free verse
• Drama : classical, tragedy, comedy