What are the common literary genres?

Literary genre refers to the specific style of literary works and is one of the elements of literary form, which is called "style" for short. There are poems, novels, essays, plays, dramatic novels, fables, newsletters and so on. The ideological content of all literary works should be expressed through one genre or another, and literary works without genres do not exist.

1. Poetry: Poetry is a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhythm. It uses highly concise language to vividly express the author's rich emotions and reflect social life. Poetry is full of the author's thoughts, feelings and rich imagination. The language is concise and vivid, with distinct rhythm, harmonious phonology and rich musical beauty. Sentences are generally in rows, paying attention to the beauty of structure and form.

2. Novel: Novel is a literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete stories and environmental descriptions. This is a narrative literary genre, which generally expresses social life through characterization and description of plot and environment.

Prose: Prose is a narrative literary genre, which expresses the author's true feelings and has a flexible writing style. Prose is known as "beautiful prose", which not only has spiritual views and beautiful artistic conception, but also has fresh, meaningful and unpretentious literary talent. Reading some good essays often can not only enrich knowledge, broaden horizons and cultivate noble thoughts and sentiments.

4. Fable: Fable is a literary genre that gives meaningful truth to concrete stories and inspires people. It's short, but concise. The hero of the story can be a person, or an anthropomorphic animal, plant or other thing.