Literature Schools, Styles, and Forms

elegy

elegy mournful or melancholy poem

epic

epic long poem or story describing heroic deeds

farce

farce light comedy

myth

myth legendary story, person, etc.

novel

novel long fictional narrative

parody

parody comic imitation of a literary or musical work

prose

prose ordinary language as distinguished from verse

rhyme

rhyme agreement in the end sounds of lines or words

satire

satire the use of irony or ridicule in exposing vice, folly, etc.

sonnet

sonnet poem of 14 lines