What are the types of literary reading?

1. According to the carrier, it can be divided into three categories: oral literature, written literature and online literature.

2. By region: foreign literature, China literature, etc.

3. According to readers' age, it is divided into children's literature and adult literature.

4. According to readers' groups and contents, it can be divided into serious literature and popular literature or popular literature, folk literature, minority literature and religious literature.

5. According to the content, it can be divided into historical biography literature, documentary literature, fantasy literature and reportage.

6. According to the genre of expression, it is divided into: novel, prose, poetry, reportage, new verse, drama, drama, script, folk custom, fable, note novel, unofficial history, fairy tale, couplet and joke; Others such as historical biography, philosophy, poetry, parallel prose, essays, literary criticism, computer games (including game consoles) with text plot structure and animation.

7. According to creative ideas, it can be divided into: romantic literature, realistic literature, etc.

Extended data

Four literary styles

1, poetry

Traditional poetry is a rhythmic literary work. It expresses some strong feelings through imagination and lyricism. Poetry is the oldest literary form. China is one of the most developed countries in poetry in the world.

From China's earliest poetry collection "The Book of Songs" to the earliest lyric poem "Li Sao", Yuefu in Han Dynasty, metrical poems in Tang and Song Dynasties, and then to ci, Yuanqu, new poems since the May 4th Movement, as well as folk songs of past dynasties, an unparalleled great tradition of China's poetry has been formed. In contrast, narrative poems in the west developed late, combined with drama, and made great achievements, such as Homer's epic, Dante's Divine Comedy and Shakespeare's plays.

2. Prose

It is a literary form without strict rhythm and space restrictions.

3. Drama

It is another ancient literary form, which mainly expresses the author's thoughts and feelings through dialogues between different roles. Drama can be used for stage performance and reading.

4. Novel

It is a narrative literary genre, which generally expresses social life through characterization and description of plot and environment. The word "novel" was first recorded in Zhuangzi Foreign Things: "It is far from a county order to decorate novels."

China's novels in the modern sense spread to the novels represented by the Four Wonders of Ming and Qing Dynasties (Later, Jin Ping Mei was replaced by A Dream of Red Mansions and became the Four Classical Novels) and the short stories represented by Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio.

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