form (literature)

Beowulf
Sturm und Drang
Absurd, Theatre of the
act
adventure novel
anecdote
article (piece of writing)
audience
autobiography
ballad (literature)
biography
black humour
blank verse
brochure
burlesque
caesura
carol
character
cinquain
comedy
comedy of humours
comedy of ideas
comedy of manners
commedia dell'arte
commentary
concrete poetry
courtly love
crime fiction
detective fiction
dialogue
diary
dirge
discourse
doggerel
drama
dramatic monologue
dramatic verse
duologue
elegy
epic
epic theatre
epigram
epistle
epistolary novel
epitaph
epithalamium
erotic verse
essay
eulogy
expressionism (literature)
fable
fairy tale
fantasy fiction
farce
fiction
folklore
form (literature)
free verse
genre
gesture
gothic novel
haiku
harlequinade
heroic verse
historical novel
horror
hymn
iambic
idyll
improvisation (arts)
invocation
jingle
kenning
kitchen-sink drama
lament
lay
leaflet
legend
letter
limerick
lyric
melodrama
memorandum
metaphysical poets
metre (poetry)
mime
monologue
mythology
narration
narrative verse
narrator
naturalism
non-fiction writing
novel
obituary
ode
Paean
pantomime
parable
parody
pastiche
pastoral(e)
pattern poetry
performance art
play
plot
poet laureate
poetry
pornography
prose
prospectus
proverb
report
rhyme
rhythm (poetry)
riddle
role
romance
rondeau
saga
satire
scene
science fiction
script (theatre)
short story
situation comedy
soliloquy
sonnet
stage direction
stanza
summary
tanka
theatre
theme
threnody
thriller
tone (literature)
tragedy
tragicomedy
valediction
verse
war poetry
Western

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