Literature is one of the main types of art; it is a work of human thought recorded in written form. In a broad sense, literature is the totality of any written text.

Types of literature

Fiction Literature
Fiction literature is a type of art that uses as its only material the words and constructions of natural (written human) language. This includes Epic, Prose, Lyric, Drama, Essay, Children’s Literature, and Translated Literature.

Documentary Prose
Documentary prose is a type of literature characterized by a storyline based solely on real events, with rare inclusions of fiction. biographies, histories of any events, country descriptions, investigations of high-profile crimes).

Memoirs
Memoirs are notes of contemporaries, telling about the events in which the author of the memoirs took part or which are known to him from eyewitnesses.

Scientific and Popular Science Literature
Scientific literature – a set of written works, which are created as a result of research, theoretical generalizations made within the scientific method. Scientific literature is designed to inform scientists and specialists about the latest advances in science, as well as to reinforce the priority of scientific discoveries. This includes monographs, reviews, articles, reports, abstracts, papers and reviews.

Popular science literature – literary works about science, scientific achievements and scientists, intended for a wide range of readers. Popular science literature includes works on the basics and particular problems of the basic and applied sciences, biographies of figures of science, descriptions of travels, etc., written in different genres.

Reference Literature
Literature of supportive content used to obtain the most general, uncontroversial information on a given subject. The main types of reference literature:

Dictionaries that organize information by the basic words and expressions for a given area of knowledge (or for the language as a whole), most often in alphabetical order;

Reference books in which the information is ordered in some other way, according to the own structure of the given sphere of knowledge (for example, a medical reference book – according to the localization of diseases or the nature of symptoms);

Encyclopedias – the most comprehensive and systematic summaries of information on a given field of knowledge.

Academic literature
Academic literature, which is mainly divided into textbooks and collections of tasks (exercises), has much in common with the reference: like reference literature, academic literature deals with that part of knowledge on a subject, which is considered more or less generally accepted.

Technical Literature
Technical literature is literature related to the field of engineering and manufacturing (product catalogs, operating, maintenance, and repair instructions, parts catalogs, patents, etc.).

Genres of literature

Comedy
Comedy is a type of dramatic work. It depicts all the ugly and ridiculous, funny and nonsensical, mocks the vices of society.

Lyric poem
Lyric poem (in prose)-a type of fiction, emotionally and poetically expressing the author’s feelings.

Melodrama
Melodrama is a type of drama whose characters are sharply divided into positive and negative.

Essay
Essay – the most reliable type of narrative, epic literature, depicting the facts of real life.

Song
Song, or Hymn – the most ancient type of lyric poetry; a poem consisting of several couplets and a refrain. Songs are divided into folk, heroic, historical, lyrical, etc.

Narrative
A novella is a middle form; a work that highlights a series of events in the life of the main character.

Poem
A poem is a type of lyric-epic work; a poetic narrative story.

Short story
A short story is a small form; a work about a single event in the life of a character.

Novel
Novel – a large form; a work whose events usually involve many characters whose fates are intertwined. Novels can be philosophical, adventure, historical, family and domestic, social.

Tragedy
A tragedy is a type of dramaturgical work that tells of the unhappy fate of the protagonist, often doomed to death.

Epic
An epic is a work or series of works depicting a significant historical era or a major historical event.