Letter Writing.—Business and public letters, social letters, ceremonial letters and notes.
Narration.—Letters, journals, memoirs, biographies, history, travel, news, fiction.
Description.—Descriptions of external objects, of character and its development, of intellectual processes.
Exposition.—Essays, treatises, editorials, reviews, criticisms.
Argument.—Argumentative essays, debates, briefs, etc.
Persuasion or Oratory.—Orations, addresses, lectures, sermons.
II. POETRY
Epic and Narrative Poetry.—The great epics, metrical romances, metrical tales, ballads, pastorals, idylls, etc.
Dramatic (including all narrative poetry which presents actors as speaking and acting for themselves).—Tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, melodrama, mask, interlude, etc.
Lyric.—Odes, sacred and secular songs, elegy, sonnets, simple lyrics.