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Genre Conventions of Genre: - Form - Shape - Structure of writing - Novel - Poem - play - Content - Meaning - Context Characteristics to identify a poem - r hyme scheme, lines -

If read as a poem, it could have a certain interpretation Function Possible vs. persuasive If a poem only fits in specific parameters constantly, it gets boring - Abstract, non-conformity to conventions - If a sonnet is completely a sonnet it is boring - People like it when poets colour outside the lines a bit

Conventions of content - Assumptions based on understanding of form - Infer Conventions of form - What does it look like? - Shape of it

Hierarchy of Genre -

Relate to poetry not prose

High forms

Low forms

Epic (myth)

comedy

Tragedy

Satire Parody epigram...