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refers to writing considered to be an art form or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, and sometimes deploys language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.
Literature
Types of Literature
Oral Literature and Written Literature
refers to stories, poems, songs, and other forms of verbal expression that are passed down orally from generation to generation within a culture.
Oral Literature
refers to literary works that are recorded in written form.
written literature
This is a short narrative handed down through oral tradition, passed down from one generation to the next (human as characters).
Folktale
It is a story handed down from the past, especially one that may not be true but it has historical derivational/historical background.
LEGEND
These are stories that originated in ancient times especially one dealing with ideas or beliefs about the origin of race, things or events.
Myth
Are short stories (tales) often with animals as characters which convey a moral message.
Fables
Most refers to the narrated incident in the life of an important person and should lay claim to an element of truth.
Anecdote
These are long narrative poems in an elevated style/presenting characters of high position in adventures through their relation to a central heroic figure and their development of episodes.
Epics
Is a form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by its presentation of dramatic in simple narrative form.
Ballads
Are puzzling questions, statements or description especially ones intended to test the cleverness of those wishing to solve them. e.g. It walks in four legs in the morning, two legs in the noon and three legs in the evening: Human being.
Riddles
Short well-known sayings that state a general truth or give advice or are compact fixed statements which imply question and answer.
Proverbs
A phrase/statement whose meaning is not clear from the meaning of its individual words and which must be learnt as a unit.
Idioms
consisting of people, events, or places that are imaginary—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.
Fiction
These are the beings who inhabit our stories. Sometimes they are actual people but, just as often, they are animals, dragons, faeries, or even inanimate objects.
Character
where your story takes place. Settings can be large and all-encompassing or more intimate.
Setting
includes first person ("I" and "me"), second person ("you"--this is very rarely used in fiction) and third person ("He," "she," "Nick" and "Abby"). Third person is further split into omniscient (the reader accesses all of the characters' heads and hearts, a conceit that's now considered somewhat old-fashioned) and limited (where we see the entire story through a single character's perspective).
Point of view
This is like a fingerprint, no two are alike. A function of diction, syntax,
and voice, style tends to emerge from how you write rather than from a
concerted effort to control it.
Style
refers to "The Big Ideas" that bubble up from what you've written. You may have a theme in mind when you sit at the keyboard but, like it or not, readers will carve their own idea of theme out of what you write. And that's as it should be.
Theme
The true tools of the writer. This device includes simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, alliteration, hyperbole, figurative language, humor, onomatopoeia, and irony.
Literary Devices