Forms of literature
Poetry, novel (fiction), drama, prose, essay, epic, elegy, short story, journalism, sermon, (auto) biography, travel accounts, novelette, etc.
文学是指以语言文字为工具形象化地反映客观现实的艺术,包括诗歌、散文、小说、剧本、寓言、童话等,是文化的重要表现形式,以不同的形式(称作体裁)表现内心情感和再现一定时期和一定地域的社会生活。










•Sonnet: Sonnet is the short poem of 14 lines grouped into Shakespearean and Italian sonnets.
•Ballad: The poems that are on the subject matter of love and sung by the poet or group of singers as telling readers a story.
•Elegy: This type of poem is the lamenting of the death of a person or his near one. Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray is one of the famous poems marked as sad poems of the ages.
•Ode: Ode is the formal and long poem serious in nature.
•Allegory: Allegory is the famous form of poetry and is loved by the readers because of its two symbolic meanings. One is the literal meaning and another is the deep meaning.
Epic and Mock epic: Epics are the narrative poems that convey moral and culture of that period. The Odyssey and Iliad are one of the largest philosophical epics written by Samuel Butler. Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope is the great mock epic focusing on the minor incident of cutting of a curl.





