What are the literary genres?

Poetry is the earliest genre in the literature of all nationalities in the world, and then novels and drama literature gradually developed.

There are poems, novels, essays, plays, dramatic novels, fables, newsletters and so on.

1, poetry

Poetry is a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhythm, which expresses the author's rich emotions in highly concise language and reflects social life in a concentrated way. Poetry is a lyrical literary genre.

2. Novel

Novel is a literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete story and environmental description. The methods of portraying characters in novels include psychological description, action description, language description, appearance description and expression description. At the same time, novel is a way of writing.

3. Prose

Prose is a narrative literary genre, which expresses the author's true feelings and flexible writing style. The word "prose" probably appeared in the period of Taiping and Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty (65438+February 976-165438+9841October). With the development of the times, the concept of prose has changed from broad to narrow, and it has been influenced by western culture.

4. Script

Scripts are mainly divided into literary scripts and photographic scripts. Literary scripts are scripts that highlight literariness and have a low sense of photography, including drama scripts (or drama scripts), novel scripts (or drama novels), sketch scripts, cross talk scripts and so on.

Photography script is a script that highlights the sense of shooting, and its literary artistry can be high or low (depending on the comprehensive situation of film theme, market and investment). ), including split-mirror scripts, split-mirror scripts (split-mirror scripts or movie scripts), Taiwan Province scripts, etc.

5. Fable

Fable is a literary genre that gives meaningful truth to concrete stories and gives people inspiration. It's short, but concise. The hero of the story can be a person, or an anthropomorphic animal, plant or other thing. The word first appeared in Zhuangzi, rose in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and later became a genre of literary works.

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