Four Types of Literature: Which Are You

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Four Types of Literature: Which Are You

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My English teacher senior year once suggested that every person falls under one of the four types of literature: epic, comic, tragic, and lyric. Do you think this is true? And if you do, what type do you think you are?
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I'm not sure if I agree with that but if I were to categorize myself, I'd say I'm a lyric. :lol: I love poems and as an emotional person, I think I'd fit in more into that.
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Can I pick the grey area in the middle of those four? :) Because I really don't know what I would fall under as I think our choices vary with our moods.
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I think that epic and comic somewhat fits and maybe a fourths of lyric?
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I Ve found that I rarely fall into any one category, so I am not surprised that I do not fit into any of these four categories.
Maybe a mixture of epic, comic and lyric.
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I think I will go for comic and tragedy.
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Dont know and dont care what kind of type of literature I "am"

all I do know is that i read sci fi an horror mostly Star Wars, Dune, Dean Koontz John Grisham, Anne Rice and Stephen King books
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I am person falls into Epic category.. :D
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lavkathleen wrote: ↑27 Sep 2020, 22:06 I'm not sure if I agree with that but if I were to categorize myself, I'd say I'm a lyric. :lol: I love poems and as an emotional person, I think I'd fit in more into that.
I have to agree. Those seem like very few and specific genres, but I would be a comedy.
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I think I'm a merge of the four
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Interesting idea to classify personalities in this way. I think I would be somewhere between epic (I'd love for my life to be huge and impactful, if only on a small scale) and lyric (nostalgia, idealism and romanticism all the way).
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I would say epic or tragic mostly, but also lyric as I do love poetry.
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I would say Im most likely tragic. Comics don't interest and lyrisme just plainly bores me with it's excessive metaphors.
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Pretty interesting to categorize people in this manner. I'm pretty sure all of us are a combination of all four, but I'm probably leaning towards epic myself
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