You must be asking about the "five canons of rhetoric" and
mistake it as the canons of literature, most do though.
However, the five canons are:
1- Inventio- Invention
2- Dispositio- Arranging
3- Elocutio- Style
4- Memoria- Memory
5- Actio- Delivery
We can see that these five canons can be used in every part of
Literature.