Literature

Zhiyu W. (China)
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  1. allegory
    a short moral story
  2. autobiography
    a book or account of your own life
  3. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  4. comparative literature
    study of literary works from different cultures
  5. descriptive
    serving to inform
  6. diary
    a daily written record of experiences and observations
  7. editorial
    an article giving opinions or perspectives
  8. epilogue
    a short speech by an actor at the end of a play
  9. essay
    an analytic or interpretive literary composition
  10. fairy tale
    a children's story involving fantastical beings or elements
  11. fiction
    a literary work based on the imagination
  12. futurism
    the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future
  13. legend
    a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
  14. literary criticism
    the analysis and evaluation of serious written work
  15. literary study
    the humanistic study of literature
  16. lullaby
    a quiet song intended to help a child go to sleep
  17. model
    a representation of something, often on a smaller scale
  18. modernism
    practices typical of contemporary life or thought
  19. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  20. plot
    a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
  21. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  22. pose
    assume a bearing as for artistic purposes
  23. prelude
    something that introduces what follows
  24. prologue
    an introductory section of a novel or other literary work
  25. proverb
    a condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
  26. realism
    the attribute of accepting the facts of life
  27. surrealism
    an artistic movement using fantastic and incongruous images
Created on Thu Jun 02 03:06:00 EDT 2011

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