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SUBGENRES Genres are often divided into subgenres. Literature , for instance, is divided into three basic kinds of literature, classic genres of Ancient Greece, Poetry , Drama , and Prose . Poetry may then be subdivided into Epic , Lyric , and Dramatic . Subdivisions of drama includes foremost Comedy and Tragedy , while eg. comedy itself has subgenres, including Farce , Comedy Of Manners , Burlesque , Satire , and so on. However, any of these terms would be called "genre", and its possible more general terms implied. To be even more flexible, hybrid forms of different terms have been used, like a Prose Poem or a Tragicomedy . Science Fiction has many recognized subgenres; a science fiction story may be rooted in real scientific expectations as they are understood at the time of writing (see Hard Science Fiction ). A more general term, coined by Robert A. Heinlein , is " Speculative Fiction ," an umbrella term covering all such genres that depict alternate realities. Even fiction that depicts innovations ruled out by current scientific theory, such as stories about or based on Faster-than-light travel, are still science fiction, because science is a main subject in the piece of art. Dramatic poetry, for instance, might include , Sentimental Comedy , Burlesque Comedy , and Satirical Comedy . Often, the criteria used to divide up works into genres are not consistent, and may change constantly, and be subject of argument, change and challenge by both authors and critics. However, even a very loose term like Fiction ("literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation") is not universally applied to all fictitious literature, but instead is typically restricted to the use for novel, short story, and novella, but not fables, and is also usually a prose text. A subgenre may join non-contradicting criteria: ''Romance'' and ''mystery'' are marked out by their plots, and ''Western'' by its setting, which means that a work can easily be a Western romance or Western mystery. Genres may be easily be confused with Literary Technique s, but though only loosely defined, they are not the same, examples are Parody , Frame Story , Constrained Writing , Stream Of Consciousness . LIST OF LITERARY GENRES
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