A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed

description of a person's life. It involves more

than just the basic facts like education, work,
relationships, and death; it portrays a person's
experience of these life events. Unlike a
profile or curriculum vitae (rsum), a
biography presents a subject's life story,
highlighting various aspects of his or her life,
including intimate details of experience, and
may include an analysis of the subject's
personality.
Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but
fiction can also be used to portray a person's
life. One in-depth form of biographical
coverage is called legacy writing. Works in
diverse media, from literature to film, form the
genre known as biography.
An authorized biography is written with the
permission, cooperation, and at times,
participation of a subject or a subject's heirs.
An autobiography is written by the person
himself or herself, sometimes with the
assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter.

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A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes

fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a
sequential story.
The genre has also been described as possessing "a
continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand
years".[1] This view sees the novel's origins in Classical
Greece and Rome, medieval, early modern romance, and the
tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to
describe short stories, supplied the present generic English
term in the 18th century. Ian Watt, however, in The Rise of the
Novel (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in
the early 18th century,

Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is frequently

cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern
era; the first part of Don Quixote was published in 1605.[2]
The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter
Scott defined it as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the
interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon
incidents", whereas in the novel "the events are
accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the
modern state of society".[3] However, many romances,
including the historical romances of Scott,[4] Emily Bront's
Wuthering Heights[5] and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick,[6]
are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes
romance as a "kindred term". Romance, as defined here,
should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or
romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish
between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der
Roman, il romanzo."

Short
Story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting.
Emerging from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century, the short

story has grown to encompass a body of work so diverse as to defy easy

characterization. At its most prototypical the short story features a small cast of
named characters, and focuses on a self-contained incident with the intent of
evoking a "single effect" or mood.[1] In doing so, short stories make use of plot,
resonance, and other dynamic components to a far greater degree than is
typical of an anecdote, yet to a far lesser degree than a novel. While the short
story is largely distinct from the novel, authors of both generally draw from a
common pool of literary techniques.

Example:
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Once upon a time there lived a lion in a forest.
One day after a heavy meal. It was sleeping under
a tree. After a while, there came a mouse and it
started to play on the lion. Suddenly the lion got
up with anger and looked for those who disturbed
its nice sleep. Then it saw a small mouse standing
trembling with fear. The lion jumped on it and
started to kill it. The mouse requested the lion to
forgive it. The lion felt pity and left it. The mouse
ran away.
On another day, the lion was caught in a net by a
hunter. The mouse came there and cut the net.
Thus it escaped. There after, the mouse and the
lion became friends. They lived happily in the
forest afterwards.

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a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech

and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually
metaphorical, and
often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and
stanzaic structure.

Example:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

John Keats also wrote lyric poetry. Following is an

example from his lyric
poem Ode on a Grecian Urn:

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