ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In the landscape of literature, there are four major genres: poetry, drama, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Detailed explanation-2: -: the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing. : a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech. : a dull or ordinary style, quality, or condition. prose.

Detailed explanation-3: -Poem is a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their beauty and sound and arecarefully arranged, often in short lines which rhyme.

Detailed explanation-4: -The three major genres are Prose, Drama, and Poetry. Now, like I said within each of these genres there are several subgenres, but before we get to those let’s go ahead and define the main genres.