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  2. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    A story which contains either another tale (i.e. a story within a story) or a series of stories. Well-known examples include the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. [2] free indirect discourse free verse

  3. Conflict (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    One example of the "man against man" conflict is the relationship struggles between the protagonist and the antagonist stepfather in This Boy's Life. [13] Other examples include Dorothy's struggles with the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Tom Sawyer's confrontation with Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. [1]

  4. Elizabethan literature - Wikipedia

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    Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature.In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and dramatic blank verse, as well as prose, including historical chronicles, pamphlets, and the first ...

  5. History of poetry - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] An example of Egyptian epic poetry is The Story of Sinuhe (c. 1800 BCE). [12] Other ancient epics includes the Greek Iliad and the Odyssey; the Persian Avestan books (the Yasna); the Roman national epic, Virgil's Aeneid (written between 29 and 19 BCE); and the Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Epic poetry appears to have ...

  6. Hausa literature - Wikipedia

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    The play is performed verbally by a playwright, and mainly comprises a dialogue between characters and the playwright. The modern-day style of Hausa literature was established in 1999 by Hausa-language cinema. From that time, the cultural drama was abandoned by most Hausa natives in villages and towns due to the advancement of communication ...

  7. Allegory - Wikipedia

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    In classical literature two of the best-known allegories are the Cave in Plato's The Republic (Book VII) and the story of the stomach and its members in the speech of Menenius Agrippa (Livy ii. 32). Among the best-known examples of allegory, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, forms a part of his larger work The Republic.

  8. Verse novel - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Philippine literature - Wikipedia

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    These stories often took place in the countryside, and portrayed every day Filipino activities like church-going, farming, courting, and cockfighting. The most well-known example was the short story My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken by Alejandro Roces. [18]