Outline of literature

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to literature (prose, written or oral, including fiction and non-fiction, drama, and poetry). See also the Outline of poetry. Literature can be described as all of the following: Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Written communication (writing) – representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). Subdivision of culture – shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization, or group. One of the arts – imaginative, creative, or nonscientific branch of knowledge, especially as studied academically. Composition – World literature – Literary genre Oral literature Oral poetry – Epic poetry – Legend – Mythology – Ballad – Folktale – Oral Narrative – Oral History – Urban legend – Poetry and Prose Cordel Literature Children's literature – Constrained writing – Erotic literature – Electronic literature – Literary fiction and poetry that uses the capabilities of computers and networks Digital poetry – Interactive fiction – Hypertext fiction – literary fiction written with hypertextual links Fan fiction Cell phone novel Poetry (see that article for an extensive list of subgenres and types) Aubade – Clerihew – Epic – Grook – form of short aphoristic poem invented by the Danish poet and scientist Piet Hein, who wrote over 7,000 of them. Haiku – form of short Japanese poetry consisting of three lines. Instapoetry Tanka – classical Japanese poetry of five lines. Lied – Limerick – a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line or meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. Lyric – Ode – Rhapsody – Song –

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Book

A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or s, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. It can also be a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll.