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verbal arts and literature
Forms of verbal arts and literature, including
elements used in their performance.
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- NT1 ↓ apothegms ►▼
- NT2 ↓ belief statements
- NT2 ↓ epigrams
- NT2 ↓ euphemisms
- NT2 ↓ maxims
- NT2 ↓ mottos
- NT2 ↓ proverbs ►▼
- NT3 ↓ proverbial comparisons
- NT3 ↓ proverbial exaggerations
- NT3 ↓ proverbial phrases
- NT3 ↓ true proverbs
- NT1 ↓ drama ►▼
- NT2 ↓ drama by emotional function ►▼
- NT3 ↓ comic dramas ►▼
- NT4 ↓ comic sketches
- NT4 ↓ commedia dell'arte
- NT3 ↓ tragedies
- NT3 ↓ tragicomedies
- NT3 ↓ comic dramas ►▼
- NT2 ↓ dramas by category ►▼
- NT3 ↓ combat dramas
- NT3 ↓ folk plays
- NT3 ↓ historical dramas ►▼
- NT4 ↓ commemorative dramas
- NT4 ↓ ethnographic theater
- NT4 ↓ historical reenactments
- NT3 ↓ religious dramas ►▼
- NT4 ↓ Corpus Christi dramas
- NT4 ↓ Easter dramas
- NT4 ↓ las posadas
- NT4 ↓ los pastores
- NT4 ↓ mystery plays
- NT4 ↓ nativity dramas
- NT4 ↓ pageants (religious dramas)
- NT4 ↓ purimshpil
- NT4 ↓ Virgin Mary dramas
- NT3 ↓ ritual dramas ►▼
- NT4 ↓ seasonal ritual dramas ►
- NT4 ↓ solstice dramas
- NT2 ↓ dramas by character
- NT2 ↓ dramas by structure ►▼
- NT3 ↓ docudramas
- NT3 ↓ dramatic monologues
- NT3 ↓ epic dramas
- NT3 ↓ skits ►▼
- NT4 ↓ camp skits
- NT4 ↓ minstrel show skits
- NT4 ↓ mock weddings
- NT4 ↓ occupational skits
- NT4 ↓ school plays
- NT4 ↓ vaudeville skits
- NT3 ↓ street plays
- NT3 ↓ visiting dramas ►▼
- NT4 ↓ mumming dramas
- NT2 ↓ fine arts drama ►▼
- NT3 ↓ classical Greek dramas
- NT3 ↓ kabuki
- NT3 ↓ noh dramas
- NT2 ↓ folk drama
- NT2 ↓ modes of dramatic transmission ►▼
- NT3 ↓ masked dramas ►▼
- NT4 ↓ masquerade dramas
- NT4 ↓ pantomimes
- NT3 ↓ mimes (drama) ►▼
- NT4 ↓ dumb shows
- NT3 ↓ puppet plays ►▼
- NT4 ↓ shadow puppet plays
- NT4 ↓ water puppet plays
- NT3 ↓ masked dramas ►▼
- NT2 ↓ theater studies ►▼
- NT3 ↓ acting (field of study)
- NT3 ↓ directing (field of study)
- NT3 ↓ dramaturgy (field of study)
- NT3 ↓ theater design
- NT2 ↓ drama by emotional function ►▼
- NT1 ↓ folk narratives ►▼
- NT2 ↓ anecdotes
- NT2 ↓ epics ►▼
- NT3 ↓ epics by category ►▼
- NT4 ↓ heroic epics
- NT4 ↓ historical epics
- NT4 ↓ migration epics
- NT4 ↓ mock epics
- NT3 ↓ epics by style ►▼
- NT4 ↓ bylinas
- NT4 ↓ chansons de geste
- NT4 ↓ dumas
- NT4 ↓ toasts (epics)
- NT3 ↓ literary epics
- NT3 ↓ oral epics ►▼
- NT4 ↓ Homeric epics
- NT3 ↓ epics by category ►▼
- NT2 ↓ fables ►▼
- NT3 ↓ fables by category ►▼
- NT4 ↓ apologues ►
- NT4 ↓ cautionary tales
- NT4 ↓ exempla
- NT4 ↓ moralizing tales
- NT4 ↓ parables
- NT3 ↓ fables by structure or transmission ►▼
- NT4 ↓ literary fable
- NT3 ↓ fables by category ►▼
- NT2 ↓ general narratives ►▼
- NT3 ↓ narratives by structure ►▼
- NT4 ↓ cante fables
- NT4 ↓ narrative cycles
- NT3 ↓ narratives by structure ►▼
- NT2 ↓ histories ►▼
- NT3 ↓ histories by category ►▼
- NT4 ↓ family histories
- NT4 ↓ labor histories
- NT4 ↓ life histories ►
- NT4 ↓ local histories
- NT4 ↓ regional histories
- NT3 ↓ histories by character
- NT3 ↓ histories by transmission ►▼
- NT4 ↓ material histories
- NT4 ↓ oral histories
- NT4 ↓ pictorial histories
- NT4 ↓ written histories
- NT3 ↓ histories by category ►▼
- NT2 ↓ jokes ►▼
- NT3 ↓ jokes by category ►▼
- NT4 ↓ ethnic jokes
- NT4 ↓ obscene jokes ►
- NT4 ↓ political jokes
- NT3 ↓ jokes by structure ►▼
- NT4 ↓ joke cycles
- NT4 ↓ knock-knock jokes
- NT4 ↓ narrative jokes ►
- NT4 ↓ one-liners
- NT4 ↓ question jokes
- NT4 ↓ riddle jokes
- NT4 ↓ visual jokes
- NT3 ↓ joking devices ►▼
- NT4 ↓ punch lines
- NT3 ↓ jokes by category ►▼
- NT2 ↓ legends ►▼
- NT3 ↓ legends by category ►▼
- NT4 ↓ antilegends
- NT4 ↓ contemporary legends
- NT4 ↓ etiological legends ►
- NT4 ↓ fabulates
- NT4 ↓ historical legends
- NT4 ↓ local legends ►
- NT4 ↓ migratory legends
- NT4 ↓ mythological legends
- NT4 ↓ sagas ►
- NT4 ↓ saint's legends
- NT4 ↓ supernatural legends
- NT3 ↓ legends by character ►▼
- NT4 ↓ alien abduction legends
- NT4 ↓ ghost legends
- NT3 ↓ legends by category ►▼
- NT2 ↓ myths ►▼
- NT3 ↓ monomyths
- NT3 ↓ mythography
- NT3 ↓ myths by category ►▼
- NT4 ↓ celestial mythology
- NT4 ↓ eschatological myths
- NT4 ↓ etiological myths ►
- NT3 ↓ myths by character ►▼
- NT4 ↓ coyote myths
- NT4 ↓ trickster myths
- NT2 ↓ personal experience narratives ►▼
- NT3 ↓ personal experience narratives by category ►▼
- NT4 ↓ dream narratives
- NT4 ↓ embarrassing experience stories
- NT4 ↓ memorates
- NT4 ↓ narratives of illness ►
- NT4 ↓ personal miracle narratives
- NT4 ↓ religious testimonies
- NT4 ↓ trauma narratives ►
- NT4 ↓ visionary narratives
- NT3 ↓ personal experience narratives by category ►▼
- NT2 ↓ tales ►▼
- NT3 ↓ folktales
- NT3 ↓ Mother Goose tales
- NT3 ↓ Märchen ►▼
- NT4 ↓ Buchmärchen
- NT4 ↓ Jack tales
- NT4 ↓ Kunstmärchen
- NT4 ↓ Volksmärchen
- NT3 ↓ novelle
- NT3 ↓ tales by category ►▼
- NT4 ↓ dialect tales
- NT4 ↓ etiological tales ►
- NT4 ↓ fabliaux (tale)
- NT4 ↓ merry tales
- NT4 ↓ supernatural tales
- NT4 ↓ test tales
- NT3 ↓ tales by character ►▼
- NT4 ↓ animal tales ►
- NT4 ↓ ghost stories
- NT4 ↓ numbskull tales
- NT4 ↓ preacher tales
- NT4 ↓ trickster tales
- NT3 ↓ tales by structure ►▼
- NT4 ↓ catch tales
- NT4 ↓ complex tales ►
- NT4 ↓ dilemma tales
- NT4 ↓ formula tales ►
- NT4 ↓ literary folktales
- NT4 ↓ pictorial tales
- NT4 ↓ simple tales
- NT4 ↓ unfinished tales
- NT2 ↓ tall tales
- NT1 ↓ literary devices ►▼
- NT2 ↓ characters ►▼
- NT3 ↓ actants
- NT3 ↓ antagonists ►▼
- NT4 ↓ villains (literature)
- NT3 ↓ caricatures
- NT3 ↓ characterization
- NT3 ↓ confidants
- NT3 ↓ dramatis personae
- NT3 ↓ flat characters
- NT3 ↓ foils (literary characters)
- NT3 ↓ protagonists ►▼
- NT4 ↓ anti-heroes
- NT3 ↓ round characters
- NT3 ↓ types (literature)
- NT2 ↓ literary editing ►▼
- NT3 ↓ emendation
- NT3 ↓ exegesis
- NT3 ↓ expurgation ►▼
- NT4 ↓ bowdlerization
- NT3 ↓ paraphrase
- NT3 ↓ plagiarism
- NT3 ↓ textual editing
- NT3 ↓ textual explication
- NT3 ↓ textual reconstruction
- NT3 ↓ textualization
- NT3 ↓ translation (literary editing)
- NT2 ↓ literary techniques ►▼
- NT3 ↓ figures of speech ►▼
- NT4 ↓ rhetorical figures of speech ►
- NT4 ↓ tenor (figures of speech) ►
- NT4 ↓ tropes (figures of speech) ►
- NT3 ↓ imagery
- NT3 ↓ narrative strategies
- NT3 ↓ techniques of discourse
- NT3 ↓ techniques of language ►▼
- NT4 ↓ accent (stress) ►
- NT4 ↓ archaisms
- NT4 ↓ bathos
- NT4 ↓ colloquialism
- NT4 ↓ consonance ►
- NT4 ↓ dissonance
- NT4 ↓ enjambment
- NT4 ↓ formulaic speech
- NT4 ↓ gloss
- NT4 ↓ initial rhyme
- NT4 ↓ metre ►
- NT4 ↓ onomatopeia
- NT4 ↓ rhyme ►
- NT4 ↓ scansion
- NT4 ↓ verse ►
- NT3 ↓ techniques of narration ►▼
- NT4 ↓ figurative techniques of narration ►
- NT4 ↓ frame narratives ►
- NT4 ↓ narrative patterns
- NT3 ↓ techniques of plot ►▼
- NT4 ↓ anagnorisis
- NT4 ↓ catharsis
- NT4 ↓ closure
- NT4 ↓ peripeteia
- NT3 ↓ techniques of setting ►▼
- NT4 ↓ tableau
- NT3 ↓ texture
- NT3 ↓ figures of speech ►▼
- NT2 ↓ literature classification schemes ►▼
- NT3 ↓ motifs (classification)
- NT3 ↓ oikotypes
- NT3 ↓ oikotypification
- NT3 ↓ types (classification)
- NT2 ↓ narration ►▼
- NT3 ↓ discourse (speaking) ►▼
- NT4 ↓ dialogues ►
- NT4 ↓ diction
- NT4 ↓ digressions
- NT4 ↓ free indirect discourse
- NT4 ↓ monologues ►
- NT3 ↓ discourse (speaking) ►▼
- NT2 ↓ plot ►▼
- NT3 ↓ climax ►▼
- NT4 ↓ anticlimax
- NT4 ↓ crisis
- NT3 ↓ conflict ►▼
- NT4 ↓ internal conflict
- NT3 ↓ dénouement
- NT3 ↓ epilogue
- NT3 ↓ episodic plots
- NT3 ↓ flashbacks
- NT3 ↓ prologues
- NT3 ↓ resolution ►▼
- NT4 ↓ catastrophe
- NT3 ↓ rising action
- NT3 ↓ synopsis
- NT3 ↓ climax ►▼
- NT2 ↓ point of view ►▼
- NT3 ↓ first-person narratives ►▼
- NT4 ↓ unreliable narrator
- NT3 ↓ second-person narratives
- NT3 ↓ third-person narratives ►▼
- NT4 ↓ omniscient narrators ►
- NT3 ↓ first-person narratives ►▼
- NT2 ↓ setting ►▼
- NT3 ↓ narrative locations
- NT2 ↓ characters ►▼
- NT1 ↓ literary productions ►▼
- NT2 ↓ literary fiction ►▼
- NT3 ↓ adventure fiction ►▼
- NT4 ↓ action-adventure fiction
- NT3 ↓ erotic fiction
- NT3 ↓ escape fiction
- NT3 ↓ fantasy fiction
- NT3 ↓ gothic fiction
- NT3 ↓ historical fiction
- NT3 ↓ horror fiction
- NT3 ↓ humor fiction ►▼
- NT4 ↓ satirical fiction
- NT3 ↓ inspirational fiction ►▼
- NT4 ↓ Christian fiction
- NT3 ↓ mystery fiction ►▼
- NT4 ↓ crime fiction
- NT4 ↓ detective fiction
- NT4 ↓ spy fiction
- NT4 ↓ thrillers
- NT3 ↓ romantic fiction ►▼
- NT4 ↓ medieval romances
- NT3 ↓ science fiction
- NT3 ↓ travel fiction
- NT3 ↓ Westerns (fiction)
- NT3 ↓ adventure fiction ►▼
- NT2 ↓ literary non-fiction ►▼
- NT3 ↓ erotic non-fiction
- NT3 ↓ informational non-fiction
- NT3 ↓ self-help non-fiction ►▼
- NT4 ↓ devotional non-fiction
- NT4 ↓ inspirational non-fiction
- NT3 ↓ travel literature
- NT2 ↓ literary periods
- NT2 ↓ literary productions by structure ►▼
- NT3 ↓ children's literature
- NT3 ↓ compendiums
- NT3 ↓ epistolary literature
- NT3 ↓ image-based literature ►▼
- NT4 ↓ comic books
- NT4 ↓ graphic novels
- NT4 ↓ photonovels
- NT3 ↓ novellas
- NT3 ↓ novels
- NT3 ↓ young adult literature
- NT2 ↓ popular literature
- NT2 ↓ literary fiction ►▼
- NT1 ↓ literary studies ►▼
- NT2 ↓ creative writing (field of study)
- NT2 ↓ literary criticism
- NT2 ↓ literary history
- NT1 ↓ literary transmission ►▼
- NT2 ↓ non-textual literature
- NT2 ↓ oral literature
- NT2 ↓ written literature
- NT1 ↓ literary venues
- NT1 ↓ literature agents ►▼
- NT2 ↓ editors
- NT2 ↓ translators (literature)
- NT2 ↓ writers ►▼
- NT3 ↓ authors
- NT3 ↓ biographers
- NT3 ↓ copyists
- NT3 ↓ copywriters
- NT3 ↓ essayists
- NT3 ↓ film writers
- NT3 ↓ freelance writers
- NT3 ↓ historians
- NT3 ↓ humorists
- NT3 ↓ journalists ►▼
- NT4 ↓ columnists
- NT4 ↓ reporters
- NT3 ↓ literary critics
- NT3 ↓ novelists
- NT3 ↓ scribes
- NT3 ↓ speechwriters
- NT1 ↓ non-textual narratives ►▼
- NT2 ↓ narrative images ►▼
- NT3 ↓ visual contemporary legend ►▼
- NT4 ↓ photoshops
- NT4 ↓ tall tale postcards
- NT3 ↓ visual contemporary legend ►▼
- NT2 ↓ narrative objects ►▼
- NT3 ↓ scrapbooks
- NT3 ↓ story baskets
- NT3 ↓ story cloths
- NT3 ↓ story scrolls
- NT2 ↓ narrative images ►▼
- NT1 ↓ oratory ►▼
- NT2 ↓ competitive oratory ►▼
- NT3 ↓ bluffing
- NT3 ↓ bullshitting
- NT3 ↓ liar's contests
- NT3 ↓ signifying
- NT3 ↓ talking trash
- NT3 ↓ taunting
- NT3 ↓ the dozens
- NT3 ↓ verbal dueling
- NT2 ↓ eulogies
- NT2 ↓ graces ►▼
- NT3 ↓ humorous graces
- NT2 ↓ heightened speech ►▼
- NT3 ↓ boasting
- NT3 ↓ complaining
- NT3 ↓ persuasion
- NT3 ↓ yelling ►▼
- NT2 ↓ laments
- NT2 ↓ last words
- NT2 ↓ nonsense orations
- NT2 ↓ occupational oratory ►▼
- NT3 ↓ auctioneer chants
- NT3 ↓ carnival pitches
- NT3 ↓ preaching
- NT3 ↓ race calling
- NT3 ↓ spieling
- NT3 ↓ street cries
- NT2 ↓ recitations ►▼
- NT3 ↓ declamations
- NT3 ↓ prose recitations
- NT3 ↓ verse recitations
- NT2 ↓ toasts (oratory)
- NT2 ↓ verbal aggression ►▼
- NT3 ↓ verbal abuse
- NT3 ↓ verbal threats
- NT2 ↓ competitive oratory ►▼
- NT1 ↓ poetry ►▼
- NT2 ↓ poetry by category ►▼
- NT3 ↓ metaphysical poetry
- NT3 ↓ metapoetry
- NT3 ↓ nonsense rhymes
- NT3 ↓ parody rhymes ►▼
- NT4 ↓ mock rhymes ►
- NT3 ↓ pastoral poetry
- NT2 ↓ poetry by function ►▼
- NT3 ↓ children's rhymes ►▼
- NT4 ↓ action rhymes ►
- NT3 ↓ dance rhymes
- NT3 ↓ drinking rhymes
- NT3 ↓ elegies
- NT3 ↓ epithalamiums
- NT3 ↓ love poetry
- NT3 ↓ mnemonic rhymes ►▼
- NT4 ↓ alphabet rhymes
- NT4 ↓ number-counting rhymes
- NT4 ↓ times table rhymes
- NT3 ↓ praise poetry
- NT3 ↓ protest poetry
- NT3 ↓ rhymed advice
- NT3 ↓ rhymed insults ►▼
- NT4 ↓ rhymed retorts
- NT4 ↓ rhymes of derision
- NT3 ↓ ritual poetry ►▼
- NT4 ↓ belief rhymes
- NT4 ↓ divination verse
- NT4 ↓ prophetic rhymes
- NT4 ↓ religious poetry
- NT4 ↓ ritual lament poetry
- NT3 ↓ work poetry ►▼
- NT4 ↓ cowboy poetry
- NT4 ↓ fisher poetry
- NT3 ↓ children's rhymes ►▼
- NT2 ↓ poetry by structure ►▼
- NT3 ↓ lyric poetry ►▼
- NT4 ↓ blank verse
- NT4 ↓ doggerel
- NT4 ↓ dub poetry
- NT4 ↓ epigrams (lyric poetry)
- NT4 ↓ fabliaux (poetry)
- NT4 ↓ free verse
- NT4 ↓ haiku
- NT4 ↓ limericks
- NT4 ↓ macaronic verse
- NT4 ↓ odes
- NT4 ↓ sonnets
- NT3 ↓ narrative poetry ►▼
- NT4 ↓ ballad poetry
- NT4 ↓ epic poetry
- NT4 ↓ lays
- NT4 ↓ rap poetry
- NT3 ↓ lyric poetry ►▼
- NT2 ↓ poetry by transmission ►▼
- NT3 ↓ oral poetry ►▼
- NT4 ↓ spoken word poetry
- NT3 ↓ visual poetry ►▼
- NT4 ↓ concrete poetry
- NT3 ↓ written poetry ►▼
- NT4 ↓ autograph book rhymes
- NT4 ↓ computer poetry
- NT4 ↓ grave marker verses
- NT4 ↓ memoria ►
- NT3 ↓ oral poetry ►▼
- NT2 ↓ song
- NT2 ↓ poetry by category ►▼
- NT1 ↓ rumors ►▼
- NT2 ↓ gossip
- NT1 ↓ verbal play ►▼
- NT2 ↓ insults ►▼
- NT3 ↓ retorts
- NT3 ↓ sarcastic interrogatives
- NT3 ↓ wisecracks
- NT2 ↓ language games ►▼
- NT3 ↓ mnemonics
- NT3 ↓ play languages ►▼
- NT4 ↓ false dialects
- NT4 ↓ Pig Latin
- NT3 ↓ puns ►▼
- NT4 ↓ punning quotations ►
- NT3 ↓ spoonerisms
- NT3 ↓ tongue twisters
- NT2 ↓ non-verbal riddles ►▼
- NT3 ↓ graphic puzzles ►▼
- NT3 ↓ orthographic puzzles ►▼
- NT4 ↓ acrostics
- NT4 ↓ all-letter sentences
- NT4 ↓ crossword puzzles
- NT4 ↓ over and under sentences
- NT4 ↓ palindromes
- NT4 ↓ rebuses
- NT2 ↓ puzzles
- NT2 ↓ riddles ►▼
- NT3 ↓ brainteasers
- NT3 ↓ conundrums
- NT3 ↓ initialism riddles
- NT3 ↓ neck riddles
- NT3 ↓ nonsense language riddles
- NT3 ↓ riddling questions ►▼
- NT4 ↓ catch questions
- NT4 ↓ wisdom questions
- NT3 ↓ true riddles
- NT2 ↓ speech play ►▼
- NT3 ↓ question guessing games
- NT2 ↓ insults ►▼
- NT1 ↓ written traditions ►▼
- NT2 ↓ correspondence writings ►▼
- NT3 ↓ business letters ►▼
- NT4 ↓ reference letters
- NT4 ↓ resignation letters
- NT3 ↓ complaint letters
- NT3 ↓ cover letters
- NT3 ↓ fan mail
- NT3 ↓ greeting cards
- NT3 ↓ hate mail
- NT3 ↓ last letters before death
- NT3 ↓ love letters
- NT3 ↓ open letters
- NT3 ↓ retraction letters
- NT3 ↓ business letters ►▼
- NT2 ↓ electronic writings ►▼
- NT3 ↓ e-books
- NT3 ↓ e-journals (academic)
- NT3 ↓ email ►▼
- NT4 ↓ text messages
- NT3 ↓ instant messages
- NT3 ↓ listservs
- NT3 ↓ websites ►▼
- NT2 ↓ graffiti ►▼
- NT3 ↓ epitaphs
- NT3 ↓ latrinalia
- NT2 ↓ grey literature ►▼
- NT3 ↓ academic essays ►▼
- NT4 ↓ dissertations
- NT4 ↓ theses
- NT3 ↓ booklets
- NT3 ↓ memoranda
- NT3 ↓ trade literature
- NT3 ↓ written reports
- NT3 ↓ academic essays ►▼
- NT2 ↓ memorial writings ►▼
- NT3 ↓ death notices
- NT3 ↓ necrologies
- NT3 ↓ obituaries
- NT2 ↓ narrative accounts ►▼
- NT3 ↓ chronicles
- NT3 ↓ diaries ►▼
- NT4 ↓ field diaries
- NT3 ↓ journals (personal)
- NT2 ↓ self-published writings ►▼
- NT3 ↓ fan fiction
- NT3 ↓ hand made signs
- NT3 ↓ zines
- NT2 ↓ signatory writings ►▼
- NT3 ↓ autograph albums
- NT3 ↓ pledges
- NT2 ↓ correspondence writings ►▼
