LITERARY GENRES
These are the three major genres of Literature taught in Barbados secondary schools.
What are Prose, Poetry and Drama?
All sentences in a paragraph support this.
What is the Point of a paragraph?
Poetry is considered the easiest genre for students beginning Literature studies because of these three features.
What are brevity/shortness/compactness, rhyme, and rhythm?
The major difference in the novel and the short story.
What is length?
This is the name for the most distinct difference in this genre of Literature in its written format.
What is a Script?
These two genres share the most features.
What are Drama and Prose?
This is an acronym used in some schools to highlight the content/features of a paragraph?
What is P.E.A.R, P.E.E.R, P.E.A.L, P.E.E.L, or P.E.T.A.L or P.E.A.R.L?
The Limerick has this rhyme scheme and this classic syllable count per line.
What are AABBA and 88668?
Titles in Prose works highlight the concern of the author and in the collection of short stories Over Our Way, many authors are concerned with this particular feature evident in these TWO titles.
What is Character seen in any TWO: Carlton, Ascot, Peeta and the Deep Sea, Jeffie Lemmington and Me, Anansi and Mongoose, Millicent, Amy and I, Talon. [My mother, Heart man, Paddy Man, The water woman and her lover]
This is the second most important and sometimes overlooked difference of this genre of Literature.
What is Live or Direct Audience?
This is the most obvious difference among the three genres.
What is Form/Structure?
The Link in the paragraph highlights and connects the relevance of the text to these three.
What are Links to Self, Text, World?
The Diamante has these Parts of Speech in each of its lines. Start from L1
What are Lines 1, 4 and 7 Nouns; Lines 2 and 6 Adjectives; Lines 3 and 5 Verbs
Casuarina Row, The Statehood Sacrifice, and The Bicycle are titles that highlight these features of prose, respectively.
What are Setting, Theme or Plot, and Plot?
Characters may be the first feature but they need this essential feature to create drama and this ubiquitous and unavoidable feature to establish reality.
What are Conflict and Setting?
While this genre depends less on a central perspective or point-of-view that the other two genres, this genre has the most versatile structures/forms.
What are Drama and Poetry, respectively?
Adding this to your paragraph provides verifiable proof of its point, but it must be exact and placed in this punctuation mark.
What is/are evidence and quotation marks?
Tone, Mood, and Theme are determined primarily by these three features.
What are Literary Devices, Imagery, Diction?
Millicent and Thaddeus can be described as this similar character type AND they can be described as different character types.
What is the similar function of the main or major characters; AND who are the antagonists or protagonists; or villainess or hero of the stories?
These types of drama happen when a major character begins a play or story in a favourable position and ends defeated or shunned, AND when a major character begins with a struggle that they get to achieve by the end of the play or story respectively.
What are tragedy and comedy?
This is the primary reason for engaging in the study of the three genres of Literature.
What is learning how to emulate good and avoid bad behaviours to improve our societies?
This feature is not always present in paragraph acronyms but it elevates the written responses of students and has these three words associated with its letter.
What are Techniques, Terminology and Theme?
A short fixed form poem originating from Japan that comes in two forms, which are spelt and PRONOUNCED this way.
What are HAIKU and SENRYU? [pronunciations for HAIKU: HI- COO; SENRYU: SEND -DEW]
Dialogue is an extremely important feature of Prose fiction as it, along with these THREE other features are the major ways to develop a character.
What are SPEECH, ACTION, THOUGHT, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE? Other considerations religion, ethnicity, address, birthplace, job or sport or activity
These four stories from Over our Way are easily and equally developed into the TWO major types of dramatic plays.
What are the tragedies of Carlton, Millicent, Peeta, and what are the comedies of The Bicycle, Heartman, Ascot.