Verbal Arts
Scope Note
Information on those arts (other than oratory and drama) that use primarily verbal means, either spoken or written, as a mode of artistic expression. This category includes information on genres in verbal arts (e.g., autobiography, fiction, folklore, folktales, novels, poetry, prose forms, verse forms); specialists in verbal arts; narrations and recitations; data on characters, composition, plots, structure, styles, and themes.
History Note
This category, term and scope note were introduced in 1997. To find information on this subject in material indexed before 1997, search for terms "Literature" (538) and "Literary Texts" (539). For texts of verbal arts, use the term "Texts" (900) and its subterms.
- Broader Term
- 530 Art
- Related Terms
- 195 Sociolinguistics
- 204 Press
- 214 Publishing
- 517 Leisure Time Activities
- 522 Humor
- 524 Games
- 538 Literature
- 539 Literary Texts
- 544 Public Lectures
- 773 Mythology
- 779 Theological Systems
- 814 Humanistic Studies
- 900 Texts
- Use Fors
- Allegory (verbal arts 1997 and after)
- Alliteration (verbal arts 1997 and after)
- Anecdotes
- Anthologies
- Authors (1997 and after)
- Biography (form of literature 1997 and after)
- Diary as literature (1997 and after)
- Essays (1997 and after)
- Fables (1997and after)
- Fiction by indigenes (before 1997)
- Folklore (1997 and after)
- Folktales (1997 and after)
- Ghost writers (literature 1997 and after)
- Gods as literary characters (1997 and after)
- Legends (1997 and after)
- Literary characters (1997 and after)
- Literary form (1997 and after)
- Literary narration (1997 and after)
- Literary styles (1997 and after)
- Literature written by indigenes (1997 and after)
- Metaphors in verbal arts (1997 and after)
- Meters (in poetry 1997 and after)
- Myths as literature (1997 and after)
- Narratives (literary 1997 and after)
- Onomatopoeia (1997 and after)
- Performance (storytelling)
- Poetry (1997 and after)
- Prose (1997and after)
- Proverbs (1997 and after)
- Recitation of works of verbal art (1997and after)
- Sagas (historic epics)
- Stories (1997 and after)
- Story tellers (1997and after)
- Tales (1997 and after)
- Tragedy, in literature and verbal arts (1997 and after)
- Writers (1997 and after)
- Writing, creative (1997 and after)
- Identifier
- 5310
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