Literature Schools, Styles, and Forms

Literature Schools, Styles, and Forms

elegy

mournful or melancholy poem

epic

long poem or story describing heroic deeds

farce

light comedy

myth

legendary story, person, etc.

novel

long fictional narrative

parody

comic imitation of a literary or musical work

prose

ordinary language as distinguished from verse

rhyme

agreement in the end sounds of lines or words

satire

the use of irony or ridicule in exposing vice, folly, etc.

sonnet

poem of 14 lines

tragedy

serious drama with an unhappy ending 

 

 

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