• Literary genres: definition, types & characteristics
• Different forms of Poetry: narrative, lyric, Ballad, epic, Sonnet, Ode, Elegy, Dramatic Monologue, Free Verse
• Drama: elements of drama (dialogue, plot. Setting, character, theme, action, audience, theatre)
• Types of drama: Tragedy (definition, elements of tragedy, catharsis, hamartia, the tragic hero, types of tragedy), Comedy: definition and types (romantic comedy, dark comedy, comedy of humors, comedy of manners, sentimental comedy)
• Fiction: elements of fiction (Plot, Character, Setting, Point of view, symbol, and allegory), types of fiction (novel, novella, short story, folk tale, fairy tale), Novel: definition, origin, and types (picaresque, epistolary, realistic, romantic, gothic, psychological)
• Non-fiction: definition, elements, and types
• Figurative Language: Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, hypallage, allusion, antithesis, oxymoron, climax, anti-climax, Personification, apostrophe, Allusion, Symbol, Hyperbole, Irony, and Paradox.
• Sound Patterns: Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance, Internal Rhyme, End Rhyme, Blank Verse, Free Verse, Heroic Couplet, and Rhythm.
• Style and structure: Mood, Tone, Setting, Character, and Theme.
• Prosody: stanza, The English syllable such as iamb, trochee, pyrrhic, spondee, anapaest, dactyl, amphibrach, terzarima and foot