Literature Literature *The finale of The Running Man by Stephen King involves the main protagonist commandeering a passenger jet. He then flies this jet into a large skyscraper, called the Games Building, destroying it. ...more on Wikipedia about "9/11 scenarios in fiction"
In literature, abridgement is a term signifying the reduction of a book into shorter form. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abridgement"
An addventure is a type of online interactive fiction that combines aspects of round-robin stories and Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales. Like a round-robin story, an addventure is a form of collaborative fiction in which many authors contribute to a story, each writing discrete segments. However, like a gamebook, the resulting narrative is non-linear, allowing authors to branch out in different directions after each segment of the story. The result is a continually growing work of hypertext fiction. ...more on Wikipedia about "Addventure"
Shakespeare wrote two plays in which the perception of adultery plays a significant part. In both Othello and The Winter's Tale it is the (false) belief by the central character that his wife is unfaithful that brings about his downfall. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adultery in literature"
An afterword is a literary device that is often found at the end of a piece of literature. It generally covers the story of how the book came into being, or how the idea for the book was developed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afterword"
An alter ego (from Latin, "other I") is another self, a second personality or persona within a person. The term is commonly used in literature analysis and comparison to describe characters who are psychologically identical. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alter ego"
Anacreontics (from the name of the Greek poet Anacreon), the title given to short lyrical pieces, of an easy kind, dealing with love and wine. The English word appears to have been first used in 1656 by Abraham Cowley, who called a section of his poems "anacreontiques" because they were paraphrased out of the so-called writings of Anacreon into a familiar measure which was supposed to represent the meter of the Greek. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anacreontics"
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(Anarcho-capitalist literature) * Benson, Bruce: The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without The State ...more on Wikipedia about "Anarcho-capitalist literature"
An anecdote is a brief tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always based on real life, an incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, in real places. However, over time, modification in reuse may convert a particular anecdote into a fictional piece, one that is retold but is "too good to be true". Sometimes humorous, anecdotes are not jokes, because their primary purpose is not simply to evoke laughter, but to reveal a truth more general than the brief tale itself, or to delineate a character trait or the workings of an institution in such a light that it strikes in a flash of insight to their very essence. A brief monologue beginning "A man walks into a bar..." will be a joke. A brief monologue beginning, "Once J. Edgar Hoover walked into a bar..." will be an anecdote. An anecdote thus is closer to the tradition of the parable than the patently invented fable with its animal characters and generic human figures— but it is distinct from the parable in the historical specificity which it claims. An anecdote is not a metaphor nor does it bear a moral, a necessity in both parable and fable, merely an illustrative incident that is in some way an epitome. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anecdote"
An anthology, literally "a garland" or "collection of flowers," is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. The term is also applied to a radio or television program featuring a variety of different stories. The word derives from the Greek word for garland — or bouquet of flowers — which was the title of the earliest surviving anthology, assembled by Meleager of Gadara. Meleager's Garland became the seed that grew into the Greek Anthology. The term miscellany is also used, but was more common in the past. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anthology"
The term Antinovel was coined by French critic Jean-Paul Sartre. It refers to any experimental work of fiction that avoids the familiar conventions of the novel. The antinovel usually fragments and distorts the experience of its characters, forcing the reader to construct the reality of the story from a disordered narrative. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antinovel"
Applied Drama is an umbrella term for the wider use of drama practice in a specific social context and environment. This practice doesn't have to take place in a conventional theatre space. It can be shared with, or created for, a specific audience, making them the starting point and the driving force for what is often a personal based exploration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Applied Drama"
Arabic literature is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers of the Arabic language. It does not usually include works written using the Arabic alphabet but not in the Arabic language such as Persian literature and Urdu literature. The Arabic word used for literature is adab which is derived from a word meaning "to invite someone for a meal" and implies politeness, culture and enrichment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arabic literature"
An author character (commonly referred to as an AC) is an in-text manifestation of the author of a story or a character created by the author, usually in fan fiction, that interacts with the plot and characters as if they were created in the original work (whichever medium it may have been). ...more on Wikipedia about "Author character" Can you feel it? www.shortopedia.com.
An author may have one or more purposes for writing a piece of literature. Such a purpose may be to entertain, instruct, persuade, or describe. For example, William Shakespeare wrote his plays in order to entertain. During the Enlightenment, writing to persuade was more popular. ...more on Wikipedia about "Author's purpose"
In the United States, Ashlee Simpson's album Autobiography was 2004's biggest debut by a female artist; ** it quickly went platinum and was certified triple platinum in September 2004. ** Following its July 20 release, it was number one in sales on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week, selling over 398,000 copies. 1 In its second week on the chart, it was displaced by Now That's What I Call Music! 16, a compilation of popular songs (including, co-incidentally, a cover of " Take My Breath Away" by Simpson's sister Jessica), and sold about 269,000 copies. ** In the album's third week, however, it returned to number one, ** where it remained in its fourth week, at the same time crossing the one million mark in total U.S. sales, with about 1.2 million, ** but it dropped back to number two in its fifth week, having been again displaced by the Now That's What I Call Music! compilation. ** In its sixth week, Autobiography dropped further to number six, ** and in its seventh week it fell to number eight. ** The album returned to number six in its eighth and ninth week, despite selling fewer copies than in the seventh week. ** ** It fell to number nine in its tenth week, though sales held steady. ** Subsequently the album fell (although it rose three spots in week 12), eventually dropping to number 51 in its 17th week (in mid- November 2004), before rising in the next two weeks—to number 50 and then 34—and then briefly falling again. It rose significantly in its 21st week on the chart, however, from 42 to 33, with a 61% increase in sales, according to a Geffen press release. ** According to Nielsen Soundscan figures, Autobiography sold a total of 2,576,945 copies in 2004, making it the ninth best-selling album of the year; it came behind Evanescence's Fallen, which was available for the whole year, and ahead of Now! 16, which was released a week after Autobiography. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Autobiography sales and chart positions"
In poetry, a Ballad stanza is a four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines. Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme (an abcb pattern). Samuel Taylor Coleridge adopted the ballad stanza in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ballad Stanza"
Baron Frankenstein is a fictional baron who appears in the 1931 film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. He is played by Frederick Kerr. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baron Frankenstein"
A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on a list of top-sellers. In everyday usage, the term bestseller is not usually associated with a specified level of sales, or considered of superior academic value or literary quality, it simply implies great popularity, similar to blockbuster for films and chart-topper (or similar) in music (although, in film and music, these measures are generally related to specific sales figures and periods). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bestseller"
Father Thomas Carroll, who founded the Carroll Centre for the Blind, wrote Blindness: What It Is, What It Does and How to Live with It in 1961. In it, he characterized blindness in terms of 20 losses, and as the ‘death’ of the sighted individual. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blindness in literature"
Putting Books on the radio makes the audio book format cheaply available to a wide audience. The books given this form of presentation include both fiction and non-fiction and are read either by an actor or by the author. The BBC does many of these "talking book serials" every week across their range of radio stations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Books on the radio"
Bouts-Rimés, literally (from the French) "rhymed-ends", the name given to a kind of poetic game defined by Addison, in the Spectator, as ...more on Wikipedia about "Bouts-Rimés"
Broken Rhyme, also called Split rhyme, is a rhyme produced by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line. In Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Windhover, for example, he divided the word "kingdom" at the end of the first line to rhyme with the word "wing" ending the fourth line. ...more on Wikipedia about "Broken Rhyme"
Caribbean literature is literature that takes its setting in or is related to the Caribbean Sea, or is written by authors from the Caribbean. Due to the Caribbean's wide-ranging cultural influences, Caribbean literature has been written in many languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caribbean literature"
Celtic literature is literature about Celts or written by Celtic or native British authors. Although often written in English, Celtic literature is more commonly thought of as composed in Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton or their older forms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celtic literature" It must be shortopedia. Literature
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