How many genres are there in literature?

1. Poetry: Poetry is a literary genre that uses highly concise language to vividly express the author's rich emotions, reflects social life in a concentrated way, and has a certain rhythm and rhyme. Poetry is full of the author's thoughts, feelings and rich imagination. The language is concise and vivid, has a distinctive rhythm, harmonious rhyme, and is full of musical beauty. The sentences are generally arranged in lines and pay attention to the beauty of structural form.

2. Novel: Novel is a literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete storylines and environmental descriptions. This is a narrative literary genre that generally expresses social life through the creation of characters and description of plots and environments.

3 Prose: Prose is a narrative literary genre that expresses the author's true feelings and has a flexible writing style. Prose is known as "beautiful prose". In addition to its spiritual insights and beautiful artistic conception, it also has a fresh, meaningful, simple and unpretentious literary talent. Reading some good prose regularly can not only enrich your knowledge, broaden your horizons, but also cultivate noble thoughts and sentiments.

4. Fable: Fable is a literary genre that uses metaphorical stories to convey meaningful truths and provide inspiration. It has a small number of words but is concise and comprehensive. The protagonist of the story can be a human being, an anthropomorphic animal, plant, or other object.