Literature
Scope Note
Literary styles; poetry (e.g., epic, lyric); verse forms (e.g., couplets, stanzas); poetic techniques (e.g., meter, rhyme, alliteration); prose forms (e.g., tales, sagas, proverbs, fiction, short stories, essays); narrative plot and structure; literary subjects and themes; characters (e.g., animals, men, gods); treatment (e.g., realism, fantasy, allegory, satire); composition; literary conventions; recitation and narration (e.g., occasions, audiences); specialists (e.g., poets, prose authors, story tellers, ghost writers); etc. This category is reserved for generalized descriptions of literature.
History Note
This term was used until 1997 when it was replaced with the term "Verbal Arts" (5310). See "Verbal Arts" (5310) for information on the subjects listed here in material that was indexed after 1996.
- Broader Term
- 530 Art
- Related Terms
- 195 Sociolinguistics
- 204 Press
- 214 Publishing
- 517 Leisure Time Activities
- 522 Humor
- 524 Games
- 539 Literary Texts
- 544 Public Lectures
- 779 Theological Systems
- 814 Humanistic Studies
- 900 Texts
- Use Fors
- Allegory (verbal arts before 1997)
- Alliteration (verbal arts before 1997)
- Authors (before 1997)
- Biography (form of literature before 1997)
- Diary as literature (before 1997)
- Essays (before 1997)
- Fables (before 1997)
- Fiction by indigenes (1997 and after)
- Folklore ( before 1997)
- Folktales (before 1997)
- Ghost writers (literature before 1997)
- Gods as literary characters (before 1997)
- Legends (before 1997)
- Literary characters (before 1997)
- Literary form (before 1997)
- Literary narration (before 1997)
- Literary styles (before 1997)
- Literature written by indigenes (before 1997)
- Metaphors in literature (before 1997)
- Meters (in poetry before 1997)
- Myths as literature (before 1997)
- Narratives (literary before 1997)
- Onomatopoeia (before 1997)
- Poetry (before 1997)
- Prose (before 1997)
- Proverbs (before 1997)
- Recitation of works of verbal art (before 1997)
- Sagas (tales)
- Stories (before 1997)
- Story tellers (before 1997)
- Tales (before 1997)
- Tragedy, in literature and verbal arts (before 1997)
- Writers (before 1997)
- Writing, creative (before 1997)
- Identifier
- 538
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