What are the literary forms?

According to the category, there are two categories:

Literary forms: novels, essays, poems, reportage, scripts, folk customs, fables, note novels, unofficial history, fairy tales, couplets, philosophies, poems, parallel prose, essays, literary criticism and movie scripts.

(Four categories: novels, poems, essays and plays)

Art forms: writing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, drama and film.

(Four categories: painting, sculpture, music and drama)

According to the expression:

1. Language Arts: Drama, Poetry, Novels, Prose.

2. Performing arts: music and dance

3. Plastic arts: painting and sculpture

4. Comprehensive arts: drama, traditional opera, folk art, movies, etc.

Literature Introduction-Baidu Encyclopedia

Literature is an art that uses language and words to intuitively reflect the objective reality and express the writer's inner world, including poetry, prose, novels, scripts, fables, fairy tales and other genres. It is an important literary form, which expresses inner feelings in different forms and reproduces social life in a certain period and region. As a discipline, literature includes China language and literature, foreign language and literature and journalism and communication.

Literature belongs to one of the humanities, and keeps pace with philosophy, religion, law and politics at the top of the social structure. It originated from human thinking activities. Oral literature first appeared, usually combined with music to form lyric poems that can be sung. The earliest written documents are China's The Book of Songs, Indian Ramayana and ancient Greek Ilion Ji.

China's works written in words in the pre-Qin period were collectively referred to as literature, and literary works were listed separately only after Wei and Jin Dynasties. The classification of European traditional literature theory divides literature into three categories: poetry, prose and drama. Modern literature is usually divided into four categories: poetry, novel, prose and drama.

Literature is the art of language, an important embodiment of social culture and beauty. Literary works are works that writers express their unique spiritual world with unique language art. Without these two unique characteristics, there would be no real literary works. An outstanding writer is a hero in the spiritual world of a nation. Literature represents the art and wisdom of a nation. Literature is a subject that expresses social life and psychological activities in words, and belongs to the category of social ideology.