#literary_composition__literary_work imaginative or creative writing
supertype: written_material__writtenmaterial__writing__piece_of_writing the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
subtype: acrostic verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
subtype: belles-lettres__belles_lettres creative writing valued for esthetic content
subtype: dialogue.literary_composition__dialog a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people; "he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek"
subtype: fiction a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
subtype: novel a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
subtype: detective_novel__detectivenovel__mystery_novel__mysterynovel novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end
subtype: dime_novel__penny_dreadful__pennydreadful a melodramatic paperback novel
subtype: novelette__novella a short novel
subtype: roman_a_clef__romanaclef a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters
subtype: romance a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
subtype: Gothic_romance a romance that deals with desolate and mysterious and grotesque events
subtype: roman_fleuve__romanfleuve a French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social group
subtype: phantasy__fantasy fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"
subtype: science_fiction__sciencefiction literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society
subtype: story a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
subtype: adventure_story__adventurestory__heroic_tale a story of an adventure
subtype: thriller a suspenseful adventure story
subtype: saga an narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
subtype: mystery_story__mysterystory__mystery__whodunit a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
subtype: detective_story a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution
subtype: murder_mystery a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered
subtype: love_story__romance a story dealing with love
subtype: legend__fable a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
subtype: Arthurian_legend the legend of King Arthur and his court at Camelot
subtype: short_story a prose narrative shorter than a novel
subtype: apologue__fable__parable a short moral story (often with animal characters)
subtype: Aesop's_fables a collection of fables believed to have been written the Greek storyteller Aesop
subtype: myth a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
instance: Gotterdammerung__Ragnarok__Twilight_of_the_Gods
subtype: parable (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message; "the parable of the prodigal son"
subtype: plot the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
subtype: action.plot the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"
subtype: storyline__plot_line the plot of a book or play or film
subtype: hagiology literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints
subtype: lucubration.literary_composition a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation
subtype: pastoral a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
subtype: eclogue__idyll a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
subtype: poem__verse_form__verseform a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
subtype: abecedarius__abecedariu a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order
subtype: Alcaic_verse__Alcaic verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus
subtype: lay__ballad a narrative poem of popular origin
subtype: ballade a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
subtype: blank_verse__blankverse unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
subtype: elegy__lament a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
subtype: epic_poem__epic__epos a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
subtype: Aeneid an epic in Latin by Virgil; tells the adventures of Aeneas after the Trojan War; provides an illustrious historical background for the Roman Empire
subtype: Iliad a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy
subtype: Odyssey a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
subtype: Nibelungenlied an epic poem written in Middle High German and based on the legends of Siegfried and Teutonic kings
subtype: chanson_de_geste Old French epic poems
subtype: rhapsody an epic poem adapted for recitation
subtype: heroic_verse a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
subtype: free_verse__vers_libre unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
subtype: haiku an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
subtype: lyric_poem__lyricpoem__lyric a short poem of songlike quality
subtype: ode a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
subtype: Horatian_ode__Sapphic_ode an ode with several stanzas
subtype: Pindaric_ode__Pindaric an ode form used by Pindar; has triple groups of triple units
subtype: choral_ode ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama
subtype: rondeau__rondel a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
subtype: roundel.rondeau English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
subtype: rondelet a shorter form of rondeau
subtype: sonnet a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
subtype: Petrarchan_sonnet__Italian_sonnet a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
subtype: Shakespearean_sonnet__Elizabethan_sonnet__English_sonnet a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
subtype: Spenserian_sonnet a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee
subtype: tanka a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables
subtype: terza_rima__terzarima a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.
subtype: verse__rhyme a piece of poetry
subtype: clerihew a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
subtype: doggerel_verse__doggerel__jingle a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
subtype: limerick a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
subtype: versicle a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation
subtype: sursum_corda (Roman Catholic Church) a Latin versicle meaning "lift up your hearts"
subtype: potboiler a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)
subtype: tushery writing of poor quality; characterized by affected choice of archaic words
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