The ppt provides information about the Literary Genres and its types with illustrations.

1. INTRODUCTION
TO
LITERARY GENRES
Presented by
Mrs. BLESSY R
Assistant Professor
Department of English & Other Foreign Languages
Faculty of Science and Humanities,
SRMIST, Ramapuram
INTRODUCTION
TO
LITERARY GENRES
Presented by
Mrs. BLESSY R
Assistant Professor
Department of English & Other Foreign Languages
Faculty of Science and Humanities,
SRMIST, Ramapuram

2. POETRY

3. POETRY
BALLADS
EPIC
LYRIC
ODE
SONNET
ELEGY
IDYLL

4. BALLADS
• Form of verse that tells a story
• Dramatic, funny or romantic
• It is accompanied by music
• Example- The Rime of Ancient
Mariner by S.T. Coleridge

5. Epic
• Lengthy narrative poem
• Deals with gods, goddesses and super
human forces
• Begins with invocation
• Didactic in motif
• Example- John Milton’s Paradise Lost

6. LYRIC
• It expresses the poet’s emotions
and state of mind
• It is accompanied by lyre
• Example- Go, Lovely Rose by
Edmund Waller

7. SONNET
• Fourteen line poem written in iambic
pentameter
• Example- Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s
Day? by William Shakespeare
ELEGY
• Songs of lamentation
• Example- O Captain! My Captain by Walt
Whitman

8. IDYLL
• Short poem that celebrates the rural and
country lifestyles
• Example- Milton’s Lycidas
ODE
• Form of poem that addresses a particular
subject matter
• Example- John Keat’s Ode on a Grecian Urn

9. NON- FICTION
--HISTORY
-TRAVELOGUES
-BIOGRAPHIES
-AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
-MEMOIRS

10. HISTORY
• Plot takes place in a setting related to the
historical events but it is fictional
• Example- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Travelogues
• Book talks about the experiences of a traveller
or it is about the places visited
• Example- The travels of Marco Polo by Marco
polo

11. AutobiographiesBiographies
Memoirs
• Autobiography- the story of a person’s life,
written by that person
• Biography- Life history of an individual,
written by someone else
• Memoirs- memories written by the person
themselves

12. FICTION
-NOVELS
-SHORT STORIES
-FABLES
-MYTHS
-FAIRY TALES

13. Novels
• Long narrative meant to entertain and tell a story.
• It includes cast of characters, a setting, action
with some degree of realism and an ending
• Example- James Joyce’s Ulysses
Short Stories
• Stories with fully developed theme but
significantly shorter than novel
• Example- God Sees the Truth, But Waits by Leo
Tolstoy

14. FABLES/ MYTHS/ FAIRY TALES
• Fables- a short story, with animals as
characters, conveying a moral
• Myth- a traditional story especially
concerning the early history of people
• Fairy Tales- Children’s Story about
magical and imaginary beings and lands.

15. DRAMA
•TRAGEDY
•COMEDY
•MELODRAMA
•FARCE
•SATIRE

16. Tragedy Comedy
• Tragedy- branch of drama that treats
serious , sorrowful or terrible events.
• Example- Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex
• Comedy- drama which includes comical
elements and is intended for laughing
• Example- Jane Austen’s Pride and
prejudice

17. Melodrama/ Farce/ Satire
• Melodrama- a dramatic work that is intended
to elicit strong emotional reaction from the
audience
• Farce- type of comedy with ridiculous plots
and exaggerated characters.
• Satire- use of irony, humour to ridicule and
criticise people’s stupidity and vices.

18. THANK YOU