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feelings and emotions the writer wants the reader to experience.
Mood
e main topic of a story or poem, and the message the
author or poet wants to convey about that topic.
Theme and message
the way a writer uses words to craft a story or poem.
Style
mode of fictional representation through dialogue and performance. It
is one of the literary genres, which is an imitation of some action. Drama is also a
type of a play written for theater, television, radio, and film.
Drama
are lighter in tone than ordinary works, and provide a
happy conclusion. The intention of dramatists in comedies is to make their
audience laugh. Hence, they use quaint circumstances, unusual characters, and
witty remarks.
Comedy
dramas use darker themes, such as disaster, pain, and
death. Protagonists often have a tragic flaw — a characteristic that leads them to
their downfall.
Tragedy
Generally, a ____ is a nonsensical genre of drama, which often
overacts or engages slapstick humor.
Farce
an exaggerated drama, which is sensational and
appeals directly to the senses of the audience. Just like the farce, the characters
are of a single dimension and simple, or may be stereotyped.
Melodrama
dramatists not only tell their stories
through acting and dialogue, but through dance as well as music. Often the story
may be comedic, though it may also involve serious subjects.
Musical drama
the settings are usually in distant regions and the
stories feature dark and compelling characters. They became popular in the late
19th century and usually had a sense of transcendence, supernatural, and
irrationality.
Gothic
takes place in times long past and appears romantic due
to the adventure and wildness of the time. This also provides value and meaning to
the lifestyle of the characters.
Historical
focuses on a love relationship and has a happy
ending. There are two ways these romance novels are written: as a series or
category romance (the author writes a succession of books that fit a theme or follow
a storyline) or as a single-title romance.
Contemporary romance
strictly follows scientific facts and principles. It is
strongly focused on natural sciences like physics, astronomy, chemistry,
astrophysics, etc. Interestingly, hard science fiction is often written by real
scientists, and has been known for making both accurate and inaccurate
predictions of future events. For example, the recent film Gravity, the story of an
astronaut whose spacecraft is damaged while she repairs a satellite, was renowned
for its scientific accuracy in terms of what would actually happen in space.
Hard science fiction
characterized by a focus on social sciences, like
anthropology, sociology, psychology, and politics— in other words, sciences
involving human behavior. So, soft sci-fi stories mainly address the possible
scientific consequences of human behavior. For example, the Disney animated film
Wall-E is an apocalyptic science fiction story about the end of life on Earth as a
result of man’s disregard for nature.
Soft science fiction
magazine that presents a serialized story in the form of a comic strip,
typically featuring the adventures of a superhero.
A comic is bound collection of comic strips, usually in chronological
sequence, typically telling a single story or a series of different stories.
Comic book
is a genre of writing that uses literary styles
and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
Contrasts with other non-fiction, such as technical
writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate
fact, but is not primarily written in service to its craft. As
a genre, creative non-fiction is still relatively young, and
is only beginning to be scrutinized with the same critical
analysis given to fiction and poetry.
Creative non-fiction
Here, you’re setting the scene, introducing characters, and
preparing the reader for the journey.
Exposition
