There are 3 main genres of literature namely: Prose, Drama and poetry

1. Prose: it is that form of creative Writing that deals with a long narrative. It is a straight forward narrative of a story. A prose text of less than 50 pages is called a short story and a prose text of more than 50 pages is called a Novel.

• Characteristics of prose

• It has many characters
• It is written in chapters
• It is written in a narrative form
• It is may have many idea

N.b: A person Which Write a novel is called

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1. Drama: It is that form of literature which is written to react. it is written in Arts and scenes it is written in a dialogue form or a conversational style.

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1. There are 3 types of drama; Comedy, tragedy and tragicomedy.

1. Comedy: this is that type of drama with a happy ending. It may begin sadly and ends happily.
2. Tragedy: that type of drama that ends sadly. It may begin happily but ends sadly.
3. Tragicomedy: that type of drama that has a mixture of happiness and sadness. At the end, some characters are happy and others are sad.

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• Characteristics of drama

• It is written in dialogue or conversational from
• There is action
• It has many characters
• It is written in Arts and scenes
• It may have many ideas

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1. Poetry: It is that genre of literature which is written in verses and stanzas. Its lines are short and it has few characters or a speaker. It may also have a listener. It lines are written in rhyme schemes.

N.B: A person who writes a poem is called a poet.

• Characteristic of poetry

• It is written in verses and stanzas
• It has few characters
• It has groups of rhyme limes
• It can be sung