This document discusses different types of non-fiction and drama. Non-fiction deals with real topics, people, places, and events, and writers consider their topic, purpose, and audience. There are two main types of non-fiction: autobiographies, which are stories about a person's life told by that person, and biographies, which are accounts of a person's life written by someone else. Forms of drama include comedies, which provide humor and happy endings; tragedies, which use darker themes like disaster and death; melodramas, which appeal directly to audiences' senses; and historical plays, which take place in the past and are based on real events and figures.

1. Non-Fiction

2. Non-Fiction
Deals with real people, places, things,
and event .
Writers of nonfiction keep in mind as
they write: a topic or an idea to present,
an objective or purpose for presenting
the idea, and readers or audience.

3. Non-Fiction
1. Autobiography
2. Biography

4. Non-Fiction
Autobiography
Tell stories about events in a person’s life told by
that same person.
➢A collection of personal narratives becomes an
autobiography.
A biography is written by a person who is the
subject of the biography.

5. Non-Fiction
BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES
➢Are accounts of a person’s life written by
someone else. It can be a short or book length.

6. DRAMA
A piece of writing that tells and story
and is performed on a stage

7. FORMS OF DRAMA
1. Comedy
2. Tragedy
3. Melodrama
4. Farce
5. historical

8. Comedy
Comedies are lighter in tone than ordinary
writers, and provide a happy conclusion. The
intention of dramatists in comedies is to make
their audience laugh. Hence, they use quaint
circumstances, unusual characters and witty
remarks.

9. Tragedy
Tragic dramas use darker themes such as
disaster, pain and death. Protagonists often
have a tragic flaw-a characteristics that leads
them to their downfall.

10. Farce
Generally, a farce is a nonsensical genre of
drama, which often overacts or engages
slapstick humor.
It’s basically, what you call a “parody”

11. Melodrama
is an exaggerated drama, which is
sensational and appeals directly to the
senses of audience. Just like the farce, the
characters are of single dimension and
simple, or may be stereotyped.

12. Historical
-play that takes place in the past and is based on
real events. In many of these plays, the characters
are also based on real historical figures. The
dialogue and action, however, are mostly created
by the playwright.