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Literature
Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.
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Faction
Literature; Genre
In literature, faction is a text depicted as based on real historical figures, and actual events, which are woven together with fictitious elements. Faction is often considered to ...
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Fantasy
Literature; Genre
A fantasy story is about magic or supernatural forces, rather than technology, though it often is made to include elements of other genres, such as science fiction elements, for ...
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Historical
Literature; Genre
A story about a real person or event. Often, they are written in a text book format, which may or may not focus on solely that.
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Horror
Literature; Genre
A horror story is told to deliberately scare or frighten the audience, through suspense, violence or shock. H. P. Lovecraft distinguishes two primary varieties in the ...
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Mystery
Literature; Genre
Although normally associated with the crime genre, mystery fiction is considered a completely different genre in certain circumstances where the focus is on supernatural mystery ...
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Electronic
Literature; Genre
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production, an electronic musician being a musician who composes ...
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Hip hop
Literature; Genre
Hip hop music is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of ...
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