genre


 * === Genre===

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===The major category into which literary work fits. The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama. However, genre is a flexible term; within these broad boundaries exist many subdivisions that are often called genres themselves.===

===Prose can be divided into fiction (novels and short stories) or nonfiction (essays, biographies, autobiographies, ect.) Poetry can be divided into lyric, dramatic, narrative, epic, ect. Drama can be divided into tragedy, comedy, melodrama, farce, ect.===

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Out Among The Big Things: Arthur Chapman
code Out among the big things— The mountains and the plains— An hour ain’t important, Nor are the hour’s gains;

The feller in the city Is hurried night and day, But out among the big things He learns the calmer way.

Out among the big things— The skies that never end— To lose a day ain’t nothin’, The days are here to spend; So why not give ’em freely, Enjoyin’ as we go? I somehow can’t help thinkin’ The good Lord means life so.

Out among the big things— The heights that gleam afar— A feller gets to wonder What means each distant star; He may not get an answer, But somehow, every night He feels, among the big things, That everything’s all right.

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This work is categorized as a poem. Its a fictional literary work which decribes to the audience how a man lives in the environmental state he is in.

Attributions:

Chapman, arthur. "poetry X." Out Among The Big Things. 1998-2007. poetry archives. 28 Sep 2007 .

bartlby, "genre." bartleby.com. 1/1/2005. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 28 Sep 2007 .

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