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Genres
- Children's literature [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Drama [r]: A type of literature, especially plays, meant to be delivered in spoken performance on stage. [e]
- Epic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fairy tale [r]: A story with magical or supernatural elements, in either oral tradition or written literature. [e]
- Fantasy [r]: A speculative artistic genre involving the supernatural. [e]
- Folklore [r]: The body of myths, legends, and traditional beliefs of a people or the study of those beliefs. [e]
- Gothic novel [r]: A form of fiction which became popular in England in the second half of the eighteenth century involving elements of the supernatural designed to give a pleasing frisson of terror to the reader. [e]
- Haiku [r]: A Japanese poem containing of three lines with five, seven, five syllables, respectively. [e]
- Historical novel [r]: A form of fiction which places its fictional characters in historical settings where they interact with the real people of the time. [e]
- Mystery [r]: Add brief definition or description
- nature writing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Novel [r]: A work of prose fiction of extended length. [e]
- poetry [r]: A form of literary work which uses rhythm, metre, and sound elements (such as assonance or dissonance) to structure, amplify, and in some instances supplant the literal meanings of words. [e]
- Romance literature [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Science fiction [r]: A story-telling genre that presents alternatives to what is currently considered scientifically possible or that extrapolates from present-day knowledge. [e]
- Short story [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Young adult literature [r]: Add brief definition or description
National literatures
- American literature [r]: The novels, plays, poetry, and other creative written work of the American people, from Colonial times to the present. [e]
- English literature [r]: The novels, plays, poetry, and other creative written work of the English people. [e]
- French literature [r]: Add brief definition or description
- German literature [r]: the novels, poetry, and plays written in the German language from the earliest stages (ca. 9th century) until the present day [e]
- Japanese literature [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Russian literature [r]: Add brief definition or description
