The Forms And Styles Of Literature In Writing Classes

By Sarah Evans


The world of writing is a vast and rather wondrous one. The possibility of what can be done is endless and unrelenting. There many kinds of writing as well and have different proposes that give the author a voice to give out for various people to know what they think and several in sights on these as well.

Through this, many ideas is spread around and most come alive. But there are many hurdles to becoming an author. One of these is the act of writing itself. Many Seattle writing classes exist to help out an aspiring youngster that wishes to improve in anyway the style and kind of writing they might want to develop.

For creative writing course, the writing and completed works of an author is referred to as a literature piece. In a sense it is said that all kinds of written works, be it short or long, is referred to as literature. To put it more accurately, a literary piece is form of art that involves any form of written work that contains any intellectual and artistic value.

When speaking about literature, the types that it has does not fall behind. Like music and art, there are many kinds of literature that was developed and made during its long history and life time. These main forms are called prose and poetry, and they can be classified as either fictional or non fictional genre. Under prose there are many different styles as well and they are called the novel, short story and a novella.

The distinction of a poem and poetry as a whole, is how they are made and structured. When having a poem in mind for creation, there are many things that should be taken a count of. The first is that all poems contain a structure and are lyrical in nature. This is done to make the read feel a emotion or to express it to the reader instead.

Next is the polar opposite of how a poetry is composed. That particular one is referred to as prose. A prose is constructed in a much more streamlined way than a poetry is. The aim of these works are making a coherent structure and story line that are reader will understand early and well.

A novel is a type of prose and quite arguably is its most famous and popular from. A novel is usually a long fictional story that can have aspects of real life integrated within the pages of it. Though it is often subject to much criticism in each decade, it has become a dominant from of literature since.

A shorter kind of novel does exist and is often written. This type is called a novella and this sort of written work is a cross between a short story and the novel. When it was first set for publication, many remarked it as too short to be a proper novel and it was too long for short story standards. This was because back in olden times, there was no page limit nor page count for a submitted novel. Thus this particular one is said to stand in between.

The final one is a short story. With this one, the cast of characters is significance smaller and the plot only has one point of direction, unlike novels that can have many due to its length. Many authors in the past preferred to make short stories as they much easier to make and faster to get to a publisher.




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