Creative Writing: High School: Genres, List 2

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  1. prose
    ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  2. short story
    a brief but fully developed prose narrative
  3. novel
    an extended fictional work in prose
  4. novella
    a short novel
  5. poem
    a composition in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
  6. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  7. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  8. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  9. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  10. saga
    a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family
  11. fable
    a short moral story
  12. allegory
    a short moral story
  13. parable
    a short moral story
  14. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  15. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
Created on Tue Jun 03 09:29:05 EDT 2025 (updated Tue Jun 03 09:35:57 EDT 2025)

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