Poems, Plays, and Prose

It is a play because it has different characters in it.

It is a story because it has a beginning, middle, and end.

It is a poem because it is split up into lines, verses, and stanzas.

It is an article because it presents information.

The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?

And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?

[Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, Algernon enters.]

It has stage directions to tell the actors how to perform their parts.

It has many different characters in it.

It is written in complete sentences instead of verses.

It does very little to describe the setting in which it takes place.

Stories

Plays

Poems

Prose

setting

stage directions

characters

dialogue