#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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