Genres
- popular music genre
- any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
- drama
- the literary genre of works intended for the theater
- agony column
- a newspaper column devoted to personal problems
- high comedy
- a sophisticated comedy; often satirizing genteel society
- detective story
- a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution
- musical
- a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing
- pointillism
- a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
- lead
- a news story of major importance
- cool jazz
- jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat
- short story
- a prose narrative shorter than a novel
- Hallel
- (Judaism) a chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh
- Aesop's fables
- a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop
- dithyramb
- (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)
- disco
- popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
- trad
- traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s
- Requiem
- a musical setting for a Mass celebrating the dead
- heroic poetry
- poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero
- euphuism
- an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
- black comedy
- comedy that uses black humor
- anthem
- a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
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