Lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically

spoken in the first person.[1] The term derives from a form of Ancient Greek literature, the lyric, which
was defined by its musical accompaniment, usually on a stringed instrument known as a lyre.[2] The
term owes its importance in literary theory to the division developed by Aristotle between three broad
categories of poetry: lyrical, dramatic, and epic.

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short
story that typically features entities such
as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking
animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be
distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the
veracity of the events described)[1] and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables. The term is
mainly used for stories with origins in European tradition and, at least in recent centuries, mostly
relates to children's literature.
In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual
happiness, as in "fairy tale ending" (a happy ending)[2] or "fairy tale romance". Colloquially, a "fairy
tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story
that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true. Legends are perceived as real; fairy tales
may merge into legends, where the narrative is perceived both by teller and hearers as being
grounded in historical truth. However, unlike legends and epics, they usually do not contain more
than superficial references to religion and actual places, people, and events; they take place once
upon a time rather than in actual times.[3]

Enjoy Teaching Prose, Drama, and

Poetry
June 18, 2016 by Brenda

Teaching prose, drama, and poetry is quick and easy. Kids have seen
these forms of literature before. They just need a little vocabulary,
structure, and practice.
Enjoy Teaching Prose, Drama, and Poetry
The key to teaching prose, drama, and poetry is keeping it simple and
straightforward. Explain that prose is everyday writing with sentences
and paragraphs. Ahh, that’s easy! Drama is a play. Okay. And poetry – –
– well, it’s poems! Kids already know about this stuff.
Remembering the word “prose” was difficult for my students. I had to
remind myself to refer to narrative writing as prose. That way, the
vocabulary sunk in.

I taught the structural elements with a PowerPoint presentation. We

discussed everything, no matter how simple.

Prose
Start with the form of literature that’s easiest for kids: prose. They’ll
understand sentences and paragraphs with no problem. Launch into
dialogue deeper. Explain direct quotations and dialogue tags. This will
expand their understanding and strengthen their writing.
Drama
You’ll need a model text for drama. Try Dramatic Reader for Lower
Grades by Florence Holbrook. This book, published in 1911, is now in
the public domain and can be printed freely. It features well-known
nursery rhymes.

Point out each text feature – – – or even better, let kids mark up the
text.

Poetry
When teaching poetry, I continued with the nursery rhyme theme. We
counted verses and stanzas, clapped out the rhythm, and pinpointed
the rhyming pattern.
Practice
Grab this freebie to help your students learn the structural elements of
prose, drama, and poetry.
My fourth graders also practice with adaptations of Florence
Holbrook’s Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades. Her work already
included drama and poetry. I added a little narrative to each. My
students identified the form of literature and explained in a blank area
to the right. These are available in my Teachers pay Teachers store as
a practice pack or part of a larger unit with lesson plans, PowerPoint
presentation, and more practice.

Enjoy teaching prose, poetry, and drama!

Concrete poetry is a type of poetry that uses some sort of visual
presentation to enhance the effect of the poem on the reader. The visual
layout of the poem need not necessarily form a picture, although many
concrete poems do.
Over the past century, many famous poets have written poems that
attempt to depict visually the significance of the words in the poem, from
Ezra Pound to E.E. Cummings. However, visual poetry has been around for
even longer—the poet and famous children’s author Lewis Carroll wrote a
short poem called The Mouse’s Tale, which was written in the shape of
(you guessed it), a mouse’s tail. Following, you’ll find some famous, and
other not-so-famous, examples of concrete poems.

Foundations of Concrete Poetry

Concrete poetry has its roots in works of literature coupled with,
enhanced by, or written as a series of images.
 Many medieval authors sought to couple poetry with images (such
as Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales), but the form was lost over time.
 Baroque “labyrinth poems” used words as the lines in a maze, and
the mazes themselves would form intricate and often complex images.
 William Blake’s “illuminated” works sought to couple the words of
poetry inextricably with the beautiful engraved images on a page.
When the Futurists began experimenting with poetic forms in the early
1900s, concrete poetry was established as a distinct form, obvious in
works such as Tristan Tzara’s Calligramme.

Famous Concrete Poems

In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound was a poet involved in the imagist movement, which sought
brevity, clarity, and image through short works. His poem In a Station of
the Metro is considered by many to be a concrete poem due to its focus
on visual spacing, which enhances the poem. This work is extremely
short and contains no verbs whatsoever, which provides the reader with
an immediate concrete image, like a photo snapshot. The entire text of
the work reads, “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a
wet, black bough.” Pound implicitly compares the image of faces walking
through the railway station with a beautiful image of nature, underscoring
the beauty of even this insignificant event.

Star Light
Stephen Neville wrote a poem ostensibly called Star Light, which plays on
the old children’s poem “Star light, star bright / first star I see tonight.”
The poem, which is written in the shape of the star, is an appeal to the
star that shined over Christ after his birth, the star that beckoned the
wise men from afar to come see him. In order to maintain the shape of the
star, the lines and words used become shorter and shorter to allow for the
elongation of the “arms” and “legs” of the five-point star. The bottom two
feet of the star are the last two letters of the word “night,” demonstrating
that even keeping words together is not necessarily an important part of
the form—at least, not nearly so important as coupling the words with
vibrant imagery.

Silence
When concrete poetry first became popular, writers all over the world
experimented with the form. The German poet Eugen Gomringer was a
central figure in the German movement. Silence, one of his more famous
works, depicts the concept of silence with a block made out of the word
“silence,” which is repeated 14 times, with a void in the center. Silence in
this case seems oppressive on the one hand, but the emptiness in the
center of the poem might suggest the peace found in the absence of
anything at all. Although this poem does not show an actual image, it uses
imagery and words to attempt to depict that which is intangible.

The Mouse’s Tale

If the modern conception of concrete poetry is a poem in the form of a
picture, then Lewis Carroll helped to shape this idea with his poem The
Mouse’s Tale. In Wonderland, Alice begins talking to a mouse who wants
to tell her a “long and sad tale.” Alice remarks that his tail (notice the
difference in spelling) is rather long, and as he tells his poem, it takes
shape on the page in the form of a mouse’s tail, long and curled. The
original representation of the poem had the words at the end beginning to
become smaller as the tail becomes narrower.
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Metaphor
a comparison between two things in which it is not meant to be taken literally.
Conceit
a comparison between two unlike things in which the writer tries to make us admit a
similarity between these two things (different objects are likened together with the help
of similes or metaphors)
Simile
a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'
Personification
A trope in which ideas, animals, and inanimate objects are given human traits and
characteristics.
Apostrophe
The act of addressing an abstract thing or personification that is not physically present.
Symbol
A word, place, character, or object that represents something beyond what it is in a
literal sense.
Motif
An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work and is used in a symbolic
manner.
Allusion
A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea that has historical, cultural,
literary or political significance.
Irony
A figure of speech in which words are used in a way that their intended meaning is
different from their actual meaning; simply, irony is a difference in appearance v. reality.
Verbal irony
Verbal irony involves the opposite of what is really meant or intended
Situational irony
(sometimes called cosmic irony) is where actions or events have an opposite result of
what is meant or intended
Dramatic irony
occurs when the audience/reader of the text knows something the characters do not
Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in society, such as
foundational tales. Myths often consist of sacred narratives about gods. According to
Finnish folklorist Lauri Honko:
Myth, a story of the gods, a religious account of the beginning of the world, the creation,
fundamental events, the exemplary deeds of the gods as a result of which the world, nature
and culture were created together with all parts thereof and given their order, which still
obtains. A myth expresses and confirms society's religious values and norms, it provides a
 pattern of behavior to be imitated, testifies to the efficacy of ritual with its practical ends and
establishes the sanctity of cult.[3]
While myth and other folklore genres may overlap, myth differs from genres such
as legend and folktale in that neither are considered to be sacred narratives.[4]
Although the term may be used to mean a 'false story' in colloquial speech, myth is commonly
used by folklorists and academics in other relevant fields, such as anthropology. Use of the term
by scholars has no implication whether the narrative may be understood as true or otherwise. [5]
Legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions perceived or
believed both by teller and listeners to have taken place within human history. Narratives in this
genre may demonstrate human values, and possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude.
Legend, for its active and passive participants, includes no happenings that are outside the realm of
"possibility," but may include miracles. Legends may be transformed over time, in order to keep them
fresh, vital, and realistic. Many legends operate within the realm of uncertainty, never being entirely
believed by the participants, but also never being resolutely doubted. [1]

Biag ni Lam-ang (English: "The Life of Lam-ang") is an epic poem of the Ilocano people from
the Ilocos region of the Philippines. It is notable for being the first Philippine folk epic to be recorded
in written form, and was one of only two folk epics documented during the Philippines' Spanish
Colonial period, along with the Bicolano epic of Handiong.[1](p6) It is also noted for being a folk epic
from a "Christianized" lowland people group (the Ilocano people),[2] with Roman Catholic elements
incorporated into the storytelling.[1](p"6")
As oral literature, the poem is believed to have originated in pre-colonial times, evolving as it is
passed on from poet to poet and generation to generation. [1](p"3") The poem's first transcription is
sometimes attributed to the blind Ilocano poet-preacher Pedro Bucaneg, but historian E. Arsenio
Manuel instead attributes its the first written documentation to Fr. Gerardo Blanco of Narvacan,
working with the publicist and folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes.[1](p"11")
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse that illustrates one or more instructive
lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects,
or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. [1] A parable is a type
of analogy.[2]
Some scholars of the canonical gospels and the New Testament apply the term "parable" only to
the parables of Jesus,[3][4] though that is not a common restriction of the term. Parables such as "The
Prodigal Son" are central to Jesus's teaching method in the canonical narrativesand the apocrypha.
A parable is a short tale that illustrates a universal truth; it is a simple narrative. It sketches a setting,
describes an action, and shows the results. It may sometimes be distinguished from similar narrative
types, such as the allegory and the apologue.[8]
A parable often involves a character who faces a moral dilemma or one who makes a bad decision
and then suffers the unintended consequences. Although the meaning of a parable is often not
explicitly stated, it is not intended to be hidden or secret but to be quite straightforward and obvious. [9]
The defining characteristic of the parable is the presence of a subtext suggesting how a person
should behave or what he should believe. Aside from providing guidance and suggestions for proper
conduct in one's life, parables frequently use metaphorical language which allows people to more
easily discuss difficult or complex ideas. Parables express an abstract argument by means of using
a concrete narrative which is easily understood.
The allegory is a more general narrative type; it also employs metaphor. Like the parable, the
allegory makes a single, unambiguous point. An allegory may have multiple noncontradictory
interpretations and may also have implications that are ambiguous or hard to interpret. As H.W.
Fowler put it, the object of both parable and allegory "is to enlighten the hearer by submitting to him
a case in which he has apparently no direct concern, and upon which therefore a disinterested
judgment may be elicited from him, ..."[8] The parable is more condensed than the allegory: it rests
upon a single principleand a single moral, and it is intended that the reader or listener shall conclude
that the moral applies equally well to his own concerns.

Jesus' parables
Main article: Parables of Jesus

Medieval interpreters of the Bible often treated Jesus' parables as allegories, with
symbolic correspondences found for every element in his parables. But modern scholars, beginning
with Adolf Jülicher, regard their interpretations as incorrect.[3] Jülicher held that Jesus' parables are
intended to make a single important point, and most recent scholarship agrees. [4]
Gnostics suggested that Jesus kept some of his teachings secret within the circle of his disciples
and that he deliberately obscured their meaning by using parables. For example, in Mark 4:11–12:
And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside,
everything comes in parables; in order that ‘they may indeed look, but not perceive, and may indeed
listen, but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.’” (NRSV)

Other figures of speech[edit]

The parable is related to figures of speech such as the metaphor and the simile, but it should not be
identified with them.
A parable is like a metaphor in that it uses concrete, perceptible phenomena to illustrate abstract
ideas. It may be said that a parable is a metaphor that has been extended to form a brief, coherent
narrative.
A parable also resembles a simile, i.e., a metaphorical construction in which something is said to be
"like" something else (e.g., "The just man is like a tree planted by streams of water"). However,
unlike the meaning of a simile, a parable's meaning is implicit (although not secret).

Look up travelogue in
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dictionary.

Travelogue may refer to:

Genres[edit]

 Travel documentary, a documentary film or television program that describes travel in

general

 Travelogue (literature), a record of the experiences of an author travelling

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the
basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these
life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story,
highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may
include an analysis of the subject's personality.
 nov·el1

ˈnävəl/
noun
1. a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and
action with some degree of realism.
"the novels of Jane Austen"
synonyms book, paperback, hardcover; Mor
: e
o the literary genre represented or exemplified by novels.
noun: the novel
"the novel is the most adaptable of all literary forms"