It consist written works within the common flow of conversation presented in a straightforward manner.

This is a long narrative divided into chapters.

These are also fictitious and they deal with animals and inanimate things who speak and act like people.

It is an imaginative awareness of experiences expressed through meaning sound, and rhythmic language choices as to evoke emotional response.

This refers to that kind of poetry meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre.

This is a lyric poem of 14 lines dealing with an emotion.

Does not mean exactly what it says, but instead forces the reader to make an imaginative leap in order to comprehend the author's point.

My love for you is as deep as the sea.

Your baby is a cute little panda.

The loud boom of the fireworks scared the dog.

I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

 Wise statements usually given by parents or elders of the community.

 Used in witchcraft or enchantments.

WAR SONG

Melancholic love song

Involves reference to one or two images that symbolize the characteristics of an unknown object that is to be guessed.

Characterized by the repetition of initial vowel or consonant

sounds.

A figure of speech in which a pair of opposite or

contradictory terms is used together for emphasis.

A term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa.

Lightning danced across the sky.

That knife is as sharp as a razor.

The cat meows incessantly as she pets it.

The leaves waved in the wind.

A traditional sacred story, typically revolving around the activities of gods and heroes, which aim

to explain a natural phenomenon or cultural practice.