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Kinds of Poetry and Prose

The document summarizes different types of poetry and prose. It outlines six main types of poetry: narrative, lyric, and dramatic poetry. Narrative poetry tells a story, lyric poetry focuses on feelings and is meant to be sung, and dramatic poetry is designed for performance and focuses on characters' feelings. It also defines various sub-types within each main category like epic, ballad, and sonnet. The document then outlines different types of prose like essays, novels, short stories, biographies, letters, journals, and diaries. It provides examples to illustrate each prose form.

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Kinds of Poetry and Prose

The document summarizes different types of poetry and prose. It outlines six main types of poetry: narrative, lyric, and dramatic poetry. Narrative poetry tells a story, lyric poetry focuses on feelings and is meant to be sung, and dramatic poetry is designed for performance and focuses on characters' feelings. It also defines various sub-types within each main category like epic, ballad, and sonnet. The document then outlines different types of prose like essays, novels, short stories, biographies, letters, journals, and diaries. It provides examples to illustrate each prose form.

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Poetry - A language arranged in lines with regular rhythm, meter and often with definite rhyme scheme - Use

figurative language - rhythmical creation of beauty Edgar Allan Poe a. Narrative Poetry - intends to tell a story - Usually relates the events in an order of time ^ Types^ 1. Epic tells about the adventures of a traditional hero important to the history 2. Ballad meant for singing &usually deals with subject such as love, honor or death 3. Metrical Romance - is a long rambling love story in revolving around knights, lords and their ladies 4. Metrical Tale deals with any emotion or phrase of life & is often told in simple manner b. Lyric poetry - meant to be sung - focus on the writers feeling ^Types^ 1. Ode most majestic type 2. Elegy poetic lamentation for the dead 3. Sonnet can be distinguished by its form for it always consist of 14 rhymed lines 4. Idyll a descriptive poem of rural or pastoral character which expresses the poets feeling of his immediate landscape 5. Song has a particular melodious quality 6. Simple Lyric includes all those lyric poems that dont belong under the other types c. Dramatic Poetry - focus on the characters feelings - designed to be spoken or acted on stage These are plays whose dialogues are written in the form of poetry 1. Comedy a dramatic play of light and humorous character w/ a cheerful or happy ending 2. Tragedy portrays struggle of a strong willed protagonist against fate Ex. 5 great Shakespearean Tragedies ~ Hamlet indecision ~ King Lear parental love ~ Macbeth ambition ~ Othello conjugal love ~ Romeo and Juliet young love 3. Dramatic History a dramatic play dealing w/ past historical event 4. Farce a comic play marked by broadly satirical comedy and improbable plot 5. Melodrama characterized by heavy use of suspense, sensational episodes, romantic sentiment and conventional happy ending 6. Masque a form of dramatic entertainment of the 16th & 17th century performed by masked actors 7. Dramatic Monologue a long speech In a play or a story delivered by a single person

Prose - Its structure is in terms of sentences and paragraphs Types of Prose I. Prose Drama Like poetic plays but written in prose form II. Essay A prose composition w/c discusses a particular subject. III. Prose Fiction - A prose composition w/c imaginatively created A. Prose Allegory Is a narrative prose from in w/c abstract ideas are personified Prolonged metaphor or symbolic representation

B. Prose Romance - A prose narrative treating imaginary characters, events, time or place, and usually heroic, adventure or mysterious. C. Tales of Adventure Deals w/ stories involving danger & unknown risks or mans encounter w/ nature D. Novel a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length, portraying characters, actions, and scenes representative of real life in a more or less intricate plot

E. Novelette - Shorter than a novel, longer than a short story F. Short Story - A prose narrative about 10,000 words to be read in 1 sitting G. Fable Stories about animals H. Parable Stories from the bible I. Myth Deals w/ supernatural beings, gods, and goddess

J. Legend Deals w/ the origin of things K. Folktale Is characteristically anonymous, timeless and placeless tale circulated orally among people L. Fairytale Is a narrative of adventures involving fantastic forces and beings Happy ending

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Biography A. Biography written by someone else B. Autobiography written by himself/herself Letter A. Letter written message address to a person or organization B. Journal a prose composition published periodically for an exclusive readership C. Diary a daily account of what happened in someones life Other Prose Forms Works About - Travel - History - Scientific Prose - Current Publications - Literary criticisms and Book Reviews - Philosophical and Religious Writings

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