The first and third lines generally have five syllables, while the second line will have seven. A Haiku is, once again, a shorter poem, three lines to be exact. The third and fourth shorter lines rhyme. They are five lines, where “the first, second and fifth lines, the longer lines, rhyme. Limericks are shorter poems, that tend to be a bit witty. A sonnet is “a short rhyming poem with 14 lines,” and many know of sonnets because of Shakespeare using them in his plays. While each type falls under the form of a poem, they all have different purposes. There are many different forms of poetry known today, and they are, sonnets, limericks, haikus, narratives, epics, couplets, and free verses. Poetry, however, is “the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken,” and unlike prose, poetry is written in metrical form so it generally has some type of structure to it. In short, prose fiction is “the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing”. What does it mean to be written in regular language? Well, for instance, poems are written with a certain type of structure that allows it to flow in a short, yet concise, way, but in prose, it could be saying something similar to the poem but adding more to it. It applies a natural flow of speech, and ordinary grammatical structure, rather than rhythmic structure,” which means that instead of having a metrical structure, prose fiction would be written in a regular language. It is “a form of language that has no formal metrical structure. Prose fiction is one type of literary genre in literature.

This paper is designed to address the similarities as well as the differences between each type of literary genre. Prose fiction, poetry, drama and graphic novels all differ from each other in their own ways, however, they all need to share certain aspects due to the fact that they are all a part of literature.

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