2007-05-07 04:07:31 · 4 answers · asked by rob r 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
genre (plural genres)
1. A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
Example: The still-life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
Poetry has many genre. Here is a list:
GENRES
* Cinquain1
* Cinquain2
* Maths Cinquain
* Cinquains by Wacky Web Tales
* Haiku1
* Haiku for People
* Limerick (1)
* Limerick (2)
* Diamante(1)
* Diamante (2)
* Crazy Limerick Machine
* The Limerick Factory
* Autobiographical
* Verse Composer
* Rap Realm
* Shape (concrete) Poems
* Acrostic Poems
* Couplet
* Write Different Genres
* Free Verse
2007-05-07 04:15:22 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this is for high school or a college 100 level course, then the answer your instructor is probably looking for relates to this:
In literature, there are 3 genres: poetry, prose, and plays. Plays are also called drama, and poetry is also called verse. Prose is everything else, usually novels and short stories but also the grocery shopping list you wrote on the back of an envelope and put through the washing machine.
Literature is a genre of art. The other genres on that level would be music and visual art, such as painting, sculpure, etc.
It just depends on the level you are looking at.
2007-05-07 12:15:17 · answer #2 · answered by Necromancer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poetry is its own genre. Prose comes from the word prosaic which means boring or ordinary. Of course literary prose is extraordinary but one reason it is such is that rarely does literary prose become great without it being poetic. It is not just great characters and a meaningful plot that makes these works great but the richness of language, elated language, metaphorical language that gives it the depth either of the inner thoughts of a character, the narration, or the words that the characters use. A poet sees the various nuances of a word or a sentence and how it might relate to others in shining a meaning the way mirror and light can pierce a hole into the darkness. That is the way it is. Sincerely, poetinasia@gmail.com steven david justin sills
2007-05-07 11:37:10 · answer #3 · answered by Steven S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poetry is a genre of writing in itself, and it includes a variety of forms such as the sonnet, quatrain, and villanelle.
Other genres of writing include prose (novels, short stories, essays) and drama (plays).
2007-05-07 12:16:56 · answer #4 · answered by God_Lives_Underwater 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋