Three Main Literary Forms
Ⅰ. Poetry
Essential features:
—form and music
—evoking (1)
—creating a(n) (2)
—imagination
—leading to new (3) , new feelings and experience
Ⅱ. Fiction
A. Short story
—definition: a relatively brief (4)
—subject matter: single incidents in daily life
—essential features: (5) , unity and
(6)
B. Novel
One important technique: (7)
Three methods:
—explicit presentation through (8)
—presentation of character in (9)
—presentation from within a character
Ⅲ. Drama
Origin: ancient Greek festival activities
Structures of a play
—exposition
—rising action
— (10)
—falling action
—ending
New styles and forms