These four literary genres refer to poetry, prose, novel and drama.
1, novel
The novel pays attention to shaping characters and reflects the society through the narrative of stories and the description of the environment. The three elements of the novel are the characters, the plot and the environment; The methods of portraying characters in novels are positive description (appearance, language, action and psychology) and side description (indirect description); The plot of a novel generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax and ending.
2. Prose
Prose is a free and flexible style to express what you see and feel. Prose is divided into narrative prose and lyric prose; The methods to reveal the center of prose are to express one's ambition by supporting objects, to express one's feelings by borrowing scenery and so on. Prose clue: There is often a clue to string the materials into an organic whole. People, events, feelings, scenery, time and place can be used as clues.
Step 3 be poetic
Classification of poetry: from the way of expression, it can be divided into lyric poetry and narrative poetry; From the genre of poetry, it can be divided into two categories: ancient poetry and new poetry. Ancient poems can be divided into modern poems and ancient poems (ancient style), and modern poems can be divided into metrical poems (metrical poems [five-character metrical poems, seven-character metrical poems], quatrains [five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains]), words and songs. New poems include free poems (vernacular poems produced since the May 4th Movement), prose poems (lyric poems expressed in prose) and folk songs (poems circulated by the people and created collectively).
4. Drama
It is a comprehensive stage art, integrating literature, performance, sculpture, music and dance, forming an independent artistic style. Classification of drama: drama, poetic drama, opera, ballet and traditional opera according to their forms of expression; According to the nature of content, it is divided into tragedy, comedy and drama (tragicomedy); According to the aspects involved in the theme, it can be divided into modern drama, historical drama, divine drama, science fantasy drama, pantomime and children's drama.