Literary+genre

A **literary genre** is a genre of literature, that is a category of literary composition, depending on literary technique, tone, or content. Literary works can be written in prose or poetry.

Poetry often uses particular forms and conventions to expand the literal meaning of the words, or to evoke emotional or sensual responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical effects. Eg: There's a friend kids have when they play all alone, though no one can see him who’s already grown.
 * Poetry** is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities.

Eg: Most kids have a friend when they play alone but no one who has grown can see him.
 * Prose** is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech.


 * There are three important groups:**
 * __Narrative__****: short story – novel – fable – myth – legend**
 * __Lyric__****: poems – romance (similar to English ballads) – sonnet – couplet**
 * __Drama__****: play – TV script**

It describes a sequence of real or unreal events. It may be spoken, written or imagined, and it will have one or more points of view representing some or all of the participants or observers. We can distinguish a first-person from a third-person narrative. Style is one of the five **elements of fiction**, along with **character**, **plot**, **setting**, and **theme**. Of these five elements, character is the //who//, plot is the //what//, theme is the //why//, setting is the //where// and //when//, and style is the //how// of a story.
 * __Narrative__**

It refers to either poetry that has the form and musical quality of a song, or a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music. It consists of first-person accounts of the thoughts and feelings of a specific moment; feelings are extreme, but personal. Much lyric poetry depends on regular meter based either on number of syllables or on stress, the use of verse, rhyme and rhythm.
 * __Lyric__**

It is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. Dramas are performed in various media: theatre, radio, film, and television. Drama is often combined with music and dance: the drama in opera is sung throughout; musicals include spoken dialogue and songs; and some forms of drama have regular musical accompaniment. The three primite types of drama were tragedy, comedy, and satire.
 * __Drama__**


 * Tragedy** is a form of drama defined characterized by seriousness and dignity and involving a great person who experiences a reversal of fortune.


 * Comedy** usually refers to a story with a happy ending and to the creation or presentation of humor with the intention in provoking laughter. Most comedy contains variations on the elements of surprise, incongruity, conflict, repetitiveness, and the effect of opposite expectations.


 * Satire**: Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour but criticism of an event, an individual or a group in a witty manner.