This document outlines the key differences between technical writing and creative writing. Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to an audience for a purpose, while creative writing includes fictional genres like poetry, short stories, plays and novels. The document then discusses the different types of literature, including prose (written without a formal metrical structure) and poetry (uses aesthetic qualities of language like rhythm). It provides examples of different prose forms like essays, fiction, biography and letters. It also outlines the major categories of poetry: narrative, lyric and dramatic.

1. TECHNICAL
Vs.
CREATIVE WRITING

2. TECHNICAL WRITING
Conveys specific information
about a technical subject to a
specific audience for a specific
purpose.

3. CREATIVE WRITING
FICTION.
Poetry, Short Stories, Plays,
and Novels.

4. Literature
litera/litteratura
15c. – “learning, writing”
1812 – body of writings from a
period of people
1860 – “the whole of the
writing on a particular subject”
1895 – printed matter
generally

5. 2 TYPES OF LITERATURE
PROSE POETRY

6. PROSE
 Prose is a form of language that has
no formal metrical structure. It applies
a natural flow of speech, and ordinary
grammatical structure rather than
rhythmic structure.

7. POETRY
 Poetry is a form of literature that uses
aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of
language – such as phonaesthethics,
sound symbolism, and metre – to
evoke meanings in addition to, or in
place of, the prosaic ostensible
meaning

8. TYPES OF PROSE

9. PROSE DRAMA
 like poetic plays but written in prose
forms

10. ESSAY
 a prose composition which discusses a
particular subject.

11. PROSE FICTION
 A prose composition which imaginatively
created.

12. Kinds of Prose Fiction
 Prose Allegory
 Prose Romance
 Tales of Adventure
 Novel
 Novelette
 Short Story
 Legend
 Folktale
 Fairytale
 Myth
 Parable
 Fable

13. BIOGRAPHY
 Biography – written by someone else
 Autobiography – written by
himself/herself

14. LETTERS
 Letters – written message address to a
person or organization
 Journal – a prose composition published
periodically for an exclusive readership
 Diary – a daily account of what happened
in someone’s life

15. TYPES OF POETRY

16. NARRATIVE POETRY
- Intends to tell a story
 Epic – tells about the adventures of a
traditional hero important to the history
 Ballad – meant for singing, deals with
love, honor or death.
 Metrical romance – long, rambling love
story of knights, lords, and their ladies.
 Metrical tale - deals with any emotion or
phrase in life, told in a simple manner.

17. LYRIC POETRY
- Meant to be sung
- Focus on the writer’s feelings
 Ode – most majestic type
 Elegy – poetic lamentation for the dead
 Sonnet – consists of 14 lines
 Idyll – expresses the poet’s feelings of
immediate landscape
 Song – melodious quality
 Simple lyric – includes all the lyric poems

18. DRAMATIC POETRY
- Focus on the characters feelings
- Designed to be spoken or acted