Types of literary texts

A text that tells a story is a narrative text. The narrator is the voice in the text that tells the story.

                                                          

A text where the characters speak without the aid of a narrator is a dramatic text.


                                     


A text in which the main purpose of the author is expressing feelings or just creating beauty with words is a poetic text. Sometimes it is written in verse: separate lines with or without rhyme and with a special structure.

                                                         

                    Your turn!: Draw a table with three columns: one for narrative, one for drama, one for poetry. Then include each of the following kinds of text in that category:

Sonnet     Tale    Song    Comedy    Novel    Joke    Anecdote    Elegy     Tragedy     Nursery rhyme

Film script    Short story   Rap    Biography