Lesson 7 — Activity 3: Common Literary Genres
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Lesson 7 — Activity 3: Common Literary Genres
As you know from Activities 1 and 2, literature and media can take
various forms. In this lesson, you will review some of the most common
forms or genres.
We can categorize most media and literature into either prose or poetry. The following table shows some examples of each format .
| PROSE | POETRY |
| essays and editorials | lyrics |
| reports | free verse |
| surveys | narrative poems |
| interviews | ballads |
| diaries and journals | couplets |
| autobiographies | quatrains |
| biographies | computer poetry |
| letters | limericks |
| stories and novels | haiku |
| plays | shape or concrete poems |
Digging Deeper!
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