1, poetry
Poetry is a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhythm, which expresses the author's rich emotions in highly concise language and reflects social life in a concentrated way.
Such as: Wang Zhihuan's In the Heron Villa.
2. Novel
The novel mainly depicts characters and reflects the literary genre of social life through complete stories and environmental descriptions.
Character, plot and environment are the three elements of a novel. The plot generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax and ending, and some also include prologue and ending. Environment includes natural environment and social environment.
Novels can be divided into novels, novellas, short stories and mini-novels (short stories) according to their length and capacity.
According to the performance content, it can be divided into science fiction, case-solving, legend, martial arts, romance, fan, official and so on.
According to the system, it can be divided into chapter novels, diary novels, epistolary novels and autobiographical novels. According to language forms, it can be divided into classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels.
Such as: Wu Cheng'en The Journey to the West
3. Drama
Dramatic literature refers to the script of dramatic performance. Drama literature in a broad sense includes drama scripts and opera scripts, which are divided into tragedy, comedy and drama according to the nature of drama conflicts, and drama, poetic drama and opera according to different art forms.
The basic feature is the prominent stage. High concentration of time, scene and characters; The second refers to the movements of the characters. Drama art is the art of action, and it is the art of imitating people's actions.
Such as: Cao Yu's Thunderstorm
4. Prose
Prose is a flexible literary genre, in which the author writes his true feelings and experiences.
The word "prose" probably appeared in the period of Taiping and Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty (9761February -9841month).
According to Ci Hai, since the Six Dynasties, China's prose articles, including Historical Records, have been called "prose" in order to distinguish them from rhyming and parallel prose. Then it refers to all literary genres except poetry.