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  2. List of constructed languages - Wikipedia

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    4.1.7 Other literature. 4.2 Alternative languages. 4.3 Personal languages. 5 Constructed languages in Wikipedia. 6 See also. ... Examples include Pan-Slavic languages

  3. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. [1] The term for both modern lyric poetry and modern song lyrics derives from a form of Ancient Greek literature , the Greek lyric , which was defined by its musical accompaniment, usually on an instrument known as ...

  4. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Self-help: a work written with information intended to instruct or guide readers on solving personal problems. Obituary; Travel: literature containing elements of the outdoors, nature, adventure, and traveling. Guide book: book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists; Travel blog; True crime

  5. Literary language - Wikipedia

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    Literary language is the register of a language used when writing in a formal, academic, or particularly polite tone; when speaking or writing in such a tone, it can also be known as formal language. It may be the standardized variety of a language.

  6. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Poem - a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meaning; Quest narrative – a story in which the characters must achieve a goal. This includes some illness narratives.

  7. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    The use of figurative language as a poetic device function to convey the poet's intended meaning in various ways. Allusion–A brief reference to a person, character, historical event, work of art, and Biblical or mythological situation. Analogy–Drawing a comparison or inference between two situations to convey the poet's message more ...

  8. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2] Each of the functions has an associated factor. For this work, Jakobson was influenced by Karl Bühler's organon model, to which he added the poetic, phatic and metalingual functions.

  9. American Sign Language literature - Wikipedia

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    There are many genres of ASL literature, such as narratives of personal experience, poetry, cinematographic stories, folktales, translated works, original fiction and stories with handshape constraints. [1] Authors of ASL literature use their body as the text of their work, which is visually read and comprehended by their audience viewers. [3]