Literary Genre
Every genre has its distinctive features and conventions, guiding expectations and interpretation of a text.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. The Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken, Page 124)
Genre is assessed by its content.
List
- Drama
- Hero story
- Encomium
- Epic
- Epithalamion
- Hymn
- Love poem
- Lyric poem
- Narrative
- Nature poem
- Parable
- Passion story
- Pastoral poem
- Poetry
- Proverb
- Story of origins
- Tragedy
List
- Literary forms of the Bible