Front light 
split light 
short light 
broad light 
Robin Michals | COMD 3330 OL98 Fall 2020
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Front light is good. When shooting for split light, try to make sure weird shapes of light don’t occur on the side of the face that should be dark. Both your example marked short light and your example marked broad light are broad light.
Take a look again at the short light examples:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd3330ol98fall2020/2020/11/17/week-11-one-light-portrait-photography/