1. DRAMA
The study, teaching, and understanding of drama as a discrete literary genre
a. Performance as the main vehicle of drama
b. Stage directions
c. Character
d. Spectacle
e. The development of character, theme, and atmosphere through elements such as lighting costuming, stage prop
2. POETRY
The study, teaching, and understanding of poetry as a discrete literary genre
a. Fixed forms, metre, rhythm and rhyme
b. The economy of language
c. The organic relationship between sound and sense
d. The figurative language employed to give the poem levels of meaning
3. PROSE FICTION
Elements of prose fiction that to be studied, taught, and understood
a. Narrative technique and the use of first-person and third-person narrators
b. Structure: The way in which a work of prose fiction is put together, for example, whether it is an unbroken narrative, or a narrative divided into chapters, or into larger sections or more than one narrative put together to form a longer narrative
c. The difference between narration and description
d. The presentation of humankind in a social setting
e. Characterization
f. Themes