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Comedy: originally, a drama or narrative with a happy
ending or nontragic theme, for example Dante‘s Divine Comedy; more recently,
any of various types of play or motion picture with a more or less humorous
treatment of characters and situation and a happy ending
Drama: a literary composition that tells a story, usually of human conflict,
by means of dialogue and action, to be performed by actors; play; now often any
play that is not a comedy Epic: a long narrative poem in
a dignified style about the deeds of a traditional or historical hero or heroes;
such as Homer's Iliad or the Odyssey, with certain formal characteristics
(beginning in medias res, catalog passages, invocations of the muse, etc.)
(called classical epic) b) a poem like Milton‘s Paradise Lost, in which such
characteristics are applied to later or different materials (called art epic or
literary epic) c) a poem like Beowulf, considered as expressing the early ideals
and traditions of a people or nation (called folk epic or national epic)
Fan Fiction: a broadly-defined term for fiction about characters or
settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original
creators. Farce: an exaggerated comedy based on broadly
humorous or highly unlikely situations Novella: a
relatively long fictional prose narrative with a more or less complex plot or
pattern of events, about actions, feelings, motives, of a group of characters
Parody: a literary or musical work imitating the characteristic style of
some other work or of a writer or composer in a satirical or humorous way,
usually by applying it to an inappropriate subject Satire:
a literary work in which vices, follies, stupidities or abuses, are held up to
ridicule and contempt. Short story: a fictitious literary
composition in prose or poetry, shorter than a novel; narrative; tale.
Tragedy: a serious play or drama typically dealing with the problems of a
central character, leading to an unhappy or disastrous ending brought on, as in
ancient drama, by fate and a tragic flaw in this character, or, in modern drama,
usually by moral weakness, psychological maladjustment, or social pressures
(often seen as requiring catharsis, and a tragic flaw.
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