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  2. Verse drama and dramatic verse - Wikipedia

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    Dramatic verse occurs in a dramatic work, such as a play, composed in poetic form.The tradition of dramatic verse extends at least as far back as ancient Greece.. The English Renaissance saw the height of dramatic verse in the English-speaking world, with playwrights including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare developing new techniques, both for dramatic structure and ...

  3. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning. In terms of narrative poetry, romance is a narrative poem that tells a story of chivalry. Examples include the Romance of the Rose or Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although those examples use medieval and Arthurian materials, romances may also tell stories from classical mythology.

  4. Vignette (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Vignette (literature) A vignette (/ vɪnˈjɛt / ⓘ, also / viːnˈ -/) is a French loanword expressing a short and descriptive piece of writing that captures a brief period in time. [1][2] Vignettes are more focused on vivid imagery and meaning rather than plot. [3]

  5. Literature - Wikipedia

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    The plays of Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC) provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, the earliest form of Greek Comedy, and are in fact used to define the genre. [64] The Hebrew religious text, the Torah, is widely seen as a product of the Persian period (539–333 BC, probably 450–350 BC). [65]

  6. Short story - Wikipedia

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    The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. [citation needed]

  7. Rabindranath Tagore - Wikipedia

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    — Letter to Indira Devi. The youngest of 13 surviving children, Tagore (nicknamed "Rabi") was born on 7 May 1861 in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta, the son of Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875). [b] Tagore and his wife Mrinalini Devi, 1883 Tagore was raised mostly by servants; his mother had died in his early childhood and his father travelled widely. The ...

  8. Chivalric romance - Wikipedia

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    t. e. As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a chivalric knight-errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest.

  9. Verse novel - Wikipedia

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    Literature portal. v. t. e. A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel -length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there is usually a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a novelistic manner.