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This document discusses the main literary genres of drama, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. It defines each genre and provides examples. Subgenres are also defined as categories within a genre. The document then lists and describes common subgenres for each of the four main literary genres, including comedies and tragedies as subgenres of drama, and biographies and autobiographies as subgenres of non-fiction. Overall, the document outlines the dominant conventions of traditional literary genres and subgenres.

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Creative Non Lesson

This document discusses the main literary genres of drama, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. It defines each genre and provides examples. Subgenres are also defined as categories within a genre. The document then lists and describes common subgenres for each of the four main literary genres, including comedies and tragedies as subgenres of drama, and biographies and autobiographies as subgenres of non-fiction. Overall, the document outlines the dominant conventions of traditional literary genres and subgenres.

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Creative Non-Fiction 12

A. Introduction to Literary Genres


1. Understanding Conventions of Traditional Genres
a. Fiction
b. Poetry
c. Drama
d. Non-fiction
Learning Competency
Identify dominant literary conventions of a particular genre.
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Conventions of Traditional Genres


Literature-Definition
 Books or other writing
 Consists of written productions, often restricted to those deemed to have artistic or
intellectual values
Literary Genre
 is a style of writing
 is a type or category of literature
 fancy way of saying type of literature
 When you use the term literary genre you make it clear that you're talking about
books and writing
 Bookstores sometimes use literary genres as a way to separate books into different
sections like "classics" or "mysteries”
Genre
 means "artistic category or style," and you can talk about a movie's genre, or the
genre of music that drives you crazy.
 The word genre is French and it means "kind, sort, or style”

Main Literary Genres


Drama
 A play for theater told by character dialogue
Fiction
 A story that did not actually happen in real life
Nonfiction
 Writing that is real and factual or that actually happened
Poetry
 Writing using language and sounds in special ways to express ideas

Subgenre
 A subcategory within a particular genre: The academic mystery is a subgenre of
the mystery novel

Different Subgenre of the Four Literary Convention Genres


 Subgenres of Drama
1. Comedy – a funny or humorous, drama with a happy ending
2. Tragedy – a sad drama with a sad ending
 Subgenres of Fiction
1. Fantasy – a story in a fantasy world
2. Folklore – old cultural stories (includes fairy tales, fables, myths, legends
and tall tales)
3. Historical Fiction – a fiction story based on real history
4. Mystery – a story about crime
5. Realistic Fiction – a story that seems real but isn’t real
6. Romance- a love story
7. Science Fiction – a story in the future with advance technology
8. Thriller or Suspense – a story that makes reader nervous or excited
 Subgenres Of Non-Fiction
1. Biography – a story of a person’s life
2. Autobiography – a story the author writes about himself or herself
3. Narrative Non-fiction – a story or narrative that happened in real life
4. Periodicals – magazines, newspapers, and journals that are written
regularly
5. Reference Materials – book with facts in alphabetical order
 Subgenres Of Poetry
1. Lyric – a poem about the speaker thoughts
- Most poems are lyrics examples include elegy, ode, sonnet and
haiku
2. Narrative – a poem that tells a story
- There are few types of narrative but one of them is an epic or a
long poem about a hero
3. Dramatic – words spoken by a character
- We see dramatic poetry in the genre drama or play

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