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• Genre
  ...:rə, French: "kind" or "sort" is a loose set of criteria for a category of literary composition; the term is also used for any other [[Art#Art forms|form of ar ...recognized as either reflecting on or participating in the conventions of genre.
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• Satire
  ...said that ''satura'', that is a satire in hexameter verses, was a literary genre of wholly [[Roman]] origin (''satura tota nostra est''). He was [[aware]] o ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr satyr]. To Quintilian, the satire was a strict literary form, but the term soon escaped from the original narrow [[definition]].
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• Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
  ...s a wealth of [[information]] on writers and their works, [[movements]], [[genre]]s, topics, folklore, and historical, religious, and cultural events.
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• Itinerary
  ''Travel literature'' is travel [[writing]] aspiring to literary [[value]]. Travel literature typically records the [[experiences]] of an [[ ...the [[genres]] often overlap with no definite [[boundaries]]. Another sub-genre, invented in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th century],
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• Socratic
  ...]] (Greek Σωκρατικός λόγος or Σωκρατικός διάλογος) is a [[genre]] of prose literary works developed in [[Greece]] at the turn of the fourth century BCE, preser ...ly, the term refers to works in which Socrates is a character, though as a genre other texts are included; Plato's [[Laws]] and Xenophon's [[Hiero]] are Soc
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• Fantasy
  ...mary element of [[plot]], [[theme]], and/or setting. Many works within the genre take place on [[fiction]]al planes or [[planets]] where magic is common. Fa In popular [[culture]], the genre of fantasy is dominated by its medievalist form, especially since the world
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• Short Story Index
  ...as surprise endings, dialect stories, parodies, story-within-a-story) and genre.
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• Anthology
  *1: a collection of selected [[literary]] pieces or passages or works of [[art]] or [[music]] ...ollection of [[poems]], short stories, plays, [[songs]], or excerpts. In [[genre]] [[fiction]] anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works
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• Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
  ...analytical feature entries supply a wealth of [[information]] about key [[genre]]s in [[literature]], including short stories and metre. New entries on mod
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• Literature
  ...of, if not all, the world texts can be [[oral]] as well and include such [[genre]]s as epic, legend, [[myth]], ballad, plus other forms of oral poetry, and ...sjointed story-line, or of inconsistent or unconvincing [[character]]s. [[Genre]] fiction (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also become
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• Comedy
  :b : a literary work written in a comic style or treating a comic [[theme]] :b : the [[genre]] of dramatic [[literature]] dealing with the comic or with the serious in
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• Dialogue
  ==Literary and philosophical genre== A [[literature|literary]] dialogue comprises a little [[drama]] without a theater, and with scarcel
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• Epic
  ...usual or ordinary especially in size or scope <his genius was epic — Times Literary Supplement> b : heroic An '''epic''' is traditionally a [[genre]] of [[poetry]], known as epic [[poetry]]. However in [[modern]] terms, epi
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• Aphorism
  ...cience]], then statements of all kinds of [[philosophical]], [[moral]], or literary principles. In modern usage an aphorism is generally [[understood]] to be a The aphoristic [[genre]] developed together with literacy, and after the [[invention]] of [[printi
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• Horror
  The distinction between [[horror]] and terror is a standard [[literary]] and [[psychological]] [[concept]] applied especially to [https://en.wikip Horror is also a [[genre]] of [[film]] and [[fiction]] that relies on horrifying images or situation
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• Lament
  ...e "sound of trauma" is as much an element in the [[Book of Job]] as in the genre of pastoral elegy, such as [[Shelley]]'s "[[Adonais]]" or [[Matthew Arnold] ...ime" Nineteenth-Century Literature 53.3 (December 1998:279-306) traces the literary rhetoric evoking a voice crying.
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• Gale
  ...print in the Western, [[Romance]], Mystery and Science Fiction & Fantasy [[genre]]s. Gale also sells into the K-12 market with several imprints, including ....org/wiki/Book_Review_Index Book Review Index] - Index of book reviews and literary criticism, found in leading academic, popular, and professional periodicals
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• Languages and Literature
  ...writers, such as [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], have created fantasy languages, for literary, [[Artistic language|artistic]] or personal reasons. ...the world texts can be [[oral literature|oral]] as well and include such [[genre]]s as [[Epic poetry|epic]], [[legend]], [[Mythology|myth]], [[ballad]], plu
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• Narrative
  ...other forms of discourse. Nevertheless, there is a clear trend to address literary narrative forms as separable from other forms. This is first seen in Russi *How are poetry, short stories and novels of different [[genre]]s?
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• Knight
  :c. [[literary]] a man devoted to the [[service]] of a [[woman]] or a [[cause]]: in all yo ...faith]] in every area of a Knights life. During the [[Renaissance]], the [[genre]] of chivalric [[romance]] became popular in [[literature]], growing ever m
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