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| a long prose narrative fiction, usu. of more than 50000 words |
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| a somewhat long prose narrative fiction between 15000 to 50000 words |
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| a short, illustrative story designed to teach a moral or a lesson |
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| a composition for which linguistic beauty is of at least equal importance to the story |
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| a short prose narrative fiction, usu of less than 10000 words |
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| (usu) a formal composition to be delivered before an audience |
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| a 3-part poem comprising a strophe, antistrophe, and an epode |
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| a complicated, usu. unrhymed, poem with 6 6-line stanzas and a 3-line conclusion or "envoy" |
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| 14 lines, iambic pentameter, octave/sestet or 3 quatrains/1 couplet |
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| a 19-line poem w/ 2 rhymes & 2 repeated lines according to a set pattern |
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| an extended, story-form metaphor, usu. moral lesson |
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| an artwork that exaggerates individual characteristics for ridiculous effect |
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| a happily ending work whose that provokes laughter by focusing on "incongruity" |
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| a work characterized by bitter, abusive argumentation or direct address |
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| a work in which magical/illogical elements appear in or as part of a "normal" setting |
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| a work imitating/mocking another, usu to ridicule |
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| a work dealing with shepherds/rustic life |
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| a work presenting the world as "it ought to be" but playing fast/loose with reality |
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| a work whose purpose is to laugh at human folly in order to correct it |
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| a work focusing on the downfall of a "person of significance" usu b/c of a personal fatal flaw |
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