LET REVIEWER - GEN. ED.

ENGLISH 5

Literature

Epistolary - novels in letters

Haiku - Japanese poem with 17 syllables (5, 7, 5) about nature

Tanka - Japanese poem: 5 lines, 31 syllables

Anthology - a collection of literary pieces

Urbana at Feliza - a kind of literary piece which moralizes and was written in a letter between two sisters dwelling in the city and the other in the province

Blank Verse - with a meter but no rhyme

Free Verse (vers libre) - without meter but with rhyme

Narrative - tells a story

Ode - typically serious/ meditative nature, type of lyric

Pastoral - rural life in a peaceful and romanticized way

LITERATURE

A. Prose - written within the common flow of conversation sentences and paragraphs

Fiction

1. Novel - has complicated plot - one main plot and many sub-plot with many settings; long narrative divided into chapters

2. Short Story - one main plot and one setting; one or more character, a narrative that can have one setting

3. Fairytales - more on fairy and princess

4. Legends - fictitious narrative usually about origin

5. Drama/Plays - perform on stage has dialogue, divided into act and each act has many scene

~Dramatic Monologue - written in form of speech for individual character

~Soliloquy - a speech by a person who reveals his thoughts

6. Myth - supernatural being

7. Parable - story from the bible

8. Fables - fictitious and they deal with animals talking and speaking like people with the purpose to enlighten the minds of children that can mold their ways and attitude

9. Folktales - story that is fictitious that enlighten the culture of people; stories that reflect peoples beliefs and are handed from generation to generation

10. Anecdotes - historical fiction, writer's imagination and the main aim is to bring out lessons to the readers

Non-fiction

1. Essay - this expresses the viewpoint or opinion of the writer about a particular problem or event

2. Biography - with life of a person himself

3. Autobiography - life of other persons

4. Diary - daily written composition based on life experience

5. Journal - comprises magazines

6. Letters

7. Articles

8. Speech - lectures and oration

9. Blogs

10. Eulogy - message for the death

B. Poetry - refers to those expressions in verse, with measure and rhyme, line & stanza, and has a more melodious tone

Narrative Poetry - important events in life either real or imaginary

1. Epic - extended narrative about heroic exploits of ten under supernatural control; a long narrative poem dealing with persons of heroic proportion and action of great significance